Page 94, the Private Eye podcast.

Hello and welcome to another episode of page 94.

This is the Paul Foot Awards winner spectacular.

Over the last six days you have heard all about the shortlisted entries

for this year's Paul Foot Award for campaigning and investigative journalism.

Six fantastic stories.

We're going to be finding out who has actually won the big gong and check in a moment's time.

Before that, though, we're going to go to last year's winner Tristan Kirk of the Evening Standard

to tell us what his story was about and, more importantly, how things have changed since last year.

So, over to Tristan.

Yeah, my reports were on the single justice procedure, which is a criminal case process,

deals with hundreds of thousands of allegations each year. And there are deep flaws in the

system whereby people are harshly and unjustly convictors in a system

which is set up for cost-cutting and efficiency and not necessarily for fairness.

So my report's brought out some of those cases that pass through the system against people

with dementia, people who are grieving

deaths, who are facing criminal convictions for not paying bills in their time of need, and are

reporting brought to the fore some of those flaws, as well as some of the other problems of the

system about targets being set for dealing

with justice, which obviously leads to efficiency being put above fairness.

The details of the stories that you had found were shocking because there were people being

prosecuted over really minor things, people who had never done anything wrong before.

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