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Lucy Letby Facts
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April 2025·Senior barristers and legal academics; The Times letters page

Bar Council senior-barristers letter (April 2025)

A letter signed by senior barristers and legal academics, coordinated via the Bar Council, published in The Times in April 2025. The letter called on the Criminal Cases Review Commission to prioritise an urgent review of the safety of Ms Letby's convictions in the light of the February 2025 Panel report. The letter is summarised here; the full text is available on thetimes.co.uk.

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A letter signed by senior barristers and legal academics, coordinated via the Bar Council and published in The Times in April 2025. The letter called on the Criminal Cases Review Commission to prioritise an urgent review of the safety of Ms Letby’s convictions in the light of the February 2025 Panel report.

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What to read alongside this

See our summary of the Panel press conference and the CCRC application entry on the timeline.