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CCRC

British

abbreviation

Criminal Cases Review Commission: a British government body established in 1997 to investigate alleged miscarriages of justice

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Ultimately, the question of whether Letby's case should be re-examined by the Court of Appeal now lies with CCRC.

From BBC • Aug. 11, 2025

Last summer, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood began the formal process of sending a recommendation to the King that Ms Pitcher should go, after personally concluding that she was not fit to head the CCRC.

From BBC • Jan. 14, 2025

Appeal, his legal team, said it was pleased Mr Malkinson's request for an independent review had been granted by the CCRC, and called for a meeting with the leader of the probe.

From BBC • Aug. 17, 2023

“The reckoning is here,” said Davis Jenkins, senior research scholar at the Community College Research Center, or CCRC, at Teachers College, Columbia University.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 3, 2023

Those numbers would be even more grim if they didn’t include high school students taking dual-enrollment courses, whom the colleges count in their enrollment but on whom they’re losing money, according to the CCRC.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 3, 2023

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