Capping compensation
Updated on 19 April 2006
Remember the Birmingham Six? The government says it wants to cap compensation payments for those who are wrongfully imprisoned.
Aquitted members of the Birmingham Six, sent to prison in 1975 for the IRA's bombing of two pubs, after being freed.
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What's injustice worth, and how much should be paid to those who have been wrongfully locked up, sometimes for years?
Today the government decided that compensation payments for miscarriages of justice are too high - and should be capped at half a million pounds. The Home Office has also scrapped its discretionary awards.
They are even looking to introducing new criminal verdicts of Not Proven - similar to Scottish Law.
The money saved will go towards helping victims of crime. But what about the victims of injustice? Our Social Affairs correspondent Victoria Macdonald reports.
