Matt Foot is co-director of the charity and law centre APPEAL, and Sam Hallam’s appeal lawyer
August 2023
Andrew Malkinson was right to expose these ministers. Why do they keep punishing innocent people?
Matt Foot
Malkinson is right to raise the plight of miscarriage of justice victims who face having compensation docked, or can’t get it at all, says lawyer Matt Foot
December 2007
Liberty and the state
The numbers game
Matt Foot
Liberty and the state: Why a 42-day limit on detention? Jacqui Smith is just picking numbers at random, as Tony Blair did before her
July 2007
Model behaviour from Ed Balls
Matt Foot
After Genoa
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April 2007
Cameron's alternative won't work
Matt Foot
A menial message
Matt Foot
March 2007
An attack of convenience
Matt Foot
Matt Foot: Legal aid reforms will mean more miscarriages of justice, and put many solicitors out of jobs.
January 2007
Get-out-of-jail spree
Matt Foot
John Reid's demand that judges stop sending people to prison seemed to ignore Labour's recent policies on crime - then I began to see why.
November 2006
CCTV concern is not merely a middle-class obsession
Matt Foot
Polly Toynbee is blind to the fact that opposition to increasing government surveillance is about social justice and civil liberties.
July 2006
Soft in the head
Matt Foot
Race, rage and the red card
Matt Foot
June 2006
Blair: 101% wrong
Matt Foot
The prime minister's recent statements about crime show he has lost touch with reality.
April 2006
Here's a thought, Mr Clarke
Matt Foot
Why don't you cut the amount paid out to compensate victims of miscarriages of justice by cutting the number of miscarriages.
March 2006
Don't pin your hopes on Gordon
Matt Foot
Brown has responded to the NHS crisis as if he were an accountant, not the future prime minister.
No, minister
Matt Foot
I have always thought John Reid a bit of an arse, primarily because he insists on being called Dr John Reid.
Turning a blind eye
Matt Foot
I'm still waiting for a letter from Jack Straw about the case of British citizens beaten up in Genoa.
August 2005
Asbo-lutely farcical
Matt Foot
Antisocial behavioural orders do not work and their accelerating use is far from a cause for celebration, writes Matt Foot.
April 2005
A triumph of hearsay and hysteria
Matt Foot
Matt Foot: Asbos are targeting the vulnerable so the government can win votes.
November 2004
Asbo absurdities
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The government claims antisocial behaviour orders are working. Dream on, says Matt Foot.
April 2000
'Are you awake? It's Paul. He's had a heart attack...'
A year ago, Matt Foot was woken in the middle of the night with terrible news. His father, the campaigning journalist and Guardian columnist Paul Foot, had been taken to hospital with a suspected coronary. This is what happened next...
