Miscarriage of justice body's funding cuts criticised as workload grows

The commission received 1,439 applications last year, compared to 885 in 2003/4.Government funding of the Criminal Cases Review Commission, the last hope for people battling miscarriages of justice, has come under attack as the number applications rises steeply.The new justice minister Edward Argar has defended the long-term decline in the agency’s budget on the grounds that it is “sufficiently funded for the work that it does”.