Ann Ming created legal history after spending 17 years doggedly working to overturn the 800-year-old double jeopardy law, which prevented people being tried twice for the same offence.

Sheridan Smith in role as double jeopardy campaigner on I Fought The Law set - Smith plays Ann Ming, a woman who campaigned to get the 800-year-old law changed following the murder of her daughter.

The archaic double jeopardy law meant he couldn’t be tried twice for the same crime and it is this law that Ming and her family successfully overturned. A Channel 5 documentary, The Incident ...

A mother fighting to end the 800-year-old double jeopardy rule has challenged the new chairman of the bar council to re-think his plans to retain it.

Sheridan Smith will star in a new ITV drama titled I Fought The Law, which is based on the real-life story of Ann Ming ...

EXCLUSIVE: All Creatures Great and Small scribe Jamie Crichton is taking on ITV’s latest campaigning drama, a series about the fight to repeal the notorious double jeopardy law starring Sheridan ...

The court on a 5-2 voteTuesday held that double jeopardy protection from a second conviction applies where a defendant who has been convicted of one offense ... My Law.com NEW. Sign In ...

Smith snapped up the lead role as Billingham mum Ann Ming, the woman credited for her tenacious campaign to change the Double Jeopardy Law, bringing her daughter Julie Hogg's killer to justice.

Sheridan Smith in role as double jeopardy campaigner on I Fought The Law set Smith plays Ann Ming, a woman who campaigned to get the 800-year-old law changed following the murder of her daughter.

British actress Sheridan Smith has been pictured embodying real-life double jeopardy campaigner Ann Ming on the set of ITV’s I Fought The Law. The forthcoming four-part series tells the story of Ms ...

Smith plays Ann Ming, a woman who campaigned to get the 800-year-old law changed following the murder of her daughter. Sheridan Smith in role as double jeopardy campaigner on I Fought The Law set ...