Miscarriage of justice - backgrounder on compensation for wrongful conviction and imprisonment [pdf, 438 KB]
...innocent on the balance of probabilities. Cabinet guidelines Cabinet has established guidelines for deciding whether or not someone receives compensation for wrongful conviction and imprisonment and how much compensation they receive. Eligible claimants must be imprisoned, and subsequently pardoned or convictions quashed The Cabinet guidelines require claimants to: be alive at the time of application have served all or part of a sentence of imprisonment have received a f...