Conference Presentations to Voluntary and Professional Organisations
The following presentations were given at the conferences of voluntary and professional organisations by Dr Michael Naughton acting in his capacity as INUK Director.
2011: ‘The dilemma of maintaining innocence in prison’, Association of Prison Lawyers and Progressing Prisoners Maintaining Innocence Joint Conference, Matrix Chambers, London, 25 January.
2010: ‘Wrongful convictions and how they might be challenged’, Progressing Prisoners Maintaining Innocence (PPMI) Public Meeting, St Mellitus Church, London, 7 November.
2010: ‘Wrongful convictions and how they might be challenged’, LawWorks Student Conference 2010, College of Law, Birmingham, 13 November.
2010: ‘Is the Criminal Cases Review Commission fit for purpose?’, Friends of Susan May Public Meeting hosted by John McDonnell MP, House of Commons, 30 November.
2010: ‘Wrongful convictions and how they might be challenged’, United Against Injustice 9th Annual Miscarriage of Justice Day Conference, 9th October, The Dragon Hall, Covent Garden, London.
2010: ‘Claims of innocence and how they might be challenged’, United Against Injustice 9th Annual Miscarriage of Justice Day Conference, 9th October, The Dragon Hall, Covent Garden, London.
2009: Annual Conference of the Independent Monitoring Board for Prisons, Keele University, 18 September: ‘Prisoners Maintaining Innocence: The Role of the Independent Monitoring Board for Prisons’.
2009: Parole Board for England and Wales Annual Conference, Blackpool, 28-29 April: ‘Prisoners Maintaining Innocence?’ (with Paul Blackburn).
2008: Miscarriages of Justice Organisation (MOJO) Conference: Limits to Reparation, Glasgow, April 21: ‘The Pressures on Life Sentenced Prisoners Maintaining Innocence to Admit their Guilt’.
2008: Paper presented at LawWorks Student & Law School Conference, Nottingham Law School, 1 November: ‘The Need for a Network of Innocence Projects’.
2007: United Against Injustice 6th annual Miscarriage of Justice Day Meeting, Dragon Hall, Covent Garden, London, 13 October: ‘Innocence Projects: Promise and Limitations’.
2007: Falsely Accused Carers and Teachers (FACT) Winter Conference, St Chads, Birmingham, 6 October: ‘Confronting an uncomfortable truth: Not all alleged victims of false accusations will be innocent!’
2007: South Wales Against Wrongful Convictions AGM, Friends Meeting House, Charles St, Cardiff, 19 July: ‘Why it is important to distinguish between claims of innocence and how we can do this’.
2006: Progressing Prisoners Maintaining Innocence (PPMI) Public Meeting, House of Commons, London, 24 May: ‘Beyond the ‘Parole Deal’: Rethinking the Problem of Prisoners Maintaining Innocence and the Key Obstacles to Progression’.
2006: FASO (False Allegations Support Organisation) Annual General Meeting, Salvation Army Hall, Bristol, 17 June: ‘False Allegations: Stigma, harm and the limits of the criminal justice system for the innocent’.
2006: Invited Paper: The emergence of the Innocence Network UK and the need for innocence projects in universities in the UK’, Law Society, Wales, National Pro Bono Week, Hilton Hotel, Cardiff, 6 June.
2005: United Against Injustice 4th Annual Miscarriage of Justice Day Conference, Friends Meeting House, Mount Street, Manchester, 15 October: ‘The University of Bristol Innocence Project – raising awareness of the wrongful conviction of the innocent, producing research and undertaking casework’.
2005: South Wales Liberty Annual General Meeting, Friends Meeting House, Charles Street, Cardiff, 18 August: ‘Miscarriages of justice, the wrongful conviction of the innocent and the implications for campaigning’.
2005: South Wales Liberty meeting to commemorate John Roden’s 11th year of imprisonment (a case that has just been referred back to the Court of Appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission), Norwegian Church, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, 8 August: ‘Legal Clinic on Miscarriages of Justice’.
2005: Progressing Prisoners Maintaining Innocence (PPMI) Conference, Vaughn House, 46 Francis Street, London, 16 July: ‘Prison, Parole and Moral Indifference’.
2005: National Pro Bono Week hosted by the Law Society, South West and Bristol Law Society , Law Society, South West, Newminster House, 27-29 Baldwin Street, Bristol. 9 June: ‘The University of Bristol Innocence Project, Pro Bono Breakfast’ (with students from the University of Bristol Innocence Project).
2005: Bristol Justice Network, Friends Meeting House, Redland Bristol, 16 May: ‘The University of Bristol Innocence Project’.
2005: The Innocence Group, 1 Pump Court, Temple, London, 12 May: ‘The Innocence Network UK and the University of Bristol Innocence Project’.
2004: Falsely Accused Carers & Teachers (FACT) Annual Conference, Dinas Powys, 11 September: ‘The creation of the Innocence Network UK’.
2004: Criminal Appeal Lawyers Association (CALA) Annual Meeting, Hickman & Rose, Liverpool Street, London, N1, 1 July: ‘The UK Innocence Projects Colloquium’.
2004: Progressing Prisoners Maintaining Innocence (PPMI) Conference, Vaughn House, 46 Francis Street, London, 21 February: ‘A response to the Parole Board – the ‘parole deal’ is not a ‘myth’’.
2003: United Against Injustice 2nd Annual Miscarriage of Justice Day Conference, Britannia Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool, 11 October: ‘The perversion of convictions for crimes that never occurred’.