Let It Plea Podcast

Nick O’Neill, Head of Accident and Personal Injury at Lees Solicitors Birkenhead joins me to discuss the Jackson Reforms and what it all means for Personal Injury Litigation. Undoubtedly one of the big beasts of Personal Injury Litigation on Merseyside, Nick has strong views about the Costs Reforms. Essential listening for Personal Injury Lawyers or those interested in access to justice.

An interview with Liverpool author George Skelly whose latest book is another spell-binding account of an appalling miscarriage of justice. Charged with the "Cranborne Road murder" of Wavertree widow Alice Rimmer, two Manchester youths were hastily condemned by a Liverpool jury on the police-orchestrated lies of a criminal and two malleable young prostitutes. George Skelly's detailed account of the warped trial, predictable appeal result courtesy of 'hanging judge' Lord Goddard and the whitewash secret inquiry will enrage all who believe in justice. And if the men's prison letters (including from the condemned cells) sometimes make you laugh, they will make you weep far longer. Following his masterful expose of injustice in the Cameo Cinema murder case in 1950s Liverpool contained in his book The Cameo Conspiracy, George Skelly now reveals a second police conspiracy  -  two years later in the same city involving the same senior detective  -  which this time led to the execution of two young men. Until justice is finally done, Teddy Devlin and Alfie Burns still lie together beneath the staff car park at Walton Prison, their only trace a tiny plaque numbered 55.

Julieann Campbell, author of “Setting the Truth Free - the Inside Story of the Bloody Sunday Justice Campaign”, joins me with her uncle Gerry Duddy, brother of Bloody Sunday victim Jackie Duddy and campaigner for Justice for the Bloody Sunday families. Julieann and Gerry give an insight into how Bloody Sunday affected their community and the families’ fight for truth and justice leading to the Saville Report in June 2010. A battle against institutional cover up with many parallels to the fight for truth and justice following the Hillsborough tragedy of 1989.