Human Rights Act 2004

This section applies if—

anyone is convicted by a final decision of a criminal offence; and

the person suffers punishment because of the conviction; and

the conviction is reversed, or they are pardoned, on the ground that a new or newly discovered fact shows conclusively that there has been a miscarriage of justice.

If this section applies, the person has the right to be compensated according to law.

However, subsection (2) does not apply if it is proved that the nondisclosure of the unknown fact in time is completely or partly the person’s own doing.