If Mr Straw gets his way, miscarriages of justice, not cost savings, are the most likely result.
But some campaigners argue the law is a "lazy" option for prosecutors and can lead to miscarriages of justice.
Mr Straw said serious miscarriages of justice had occurred on occasions when the DNA samples and fingerprints had been destroyed.
New recommendations aimed at ending miscarriages of justice in child abuse investigations are in the hands of the Home Office.
The Department of Justice and our courts can work through and punish any violations of our laws or miscarriages of justice.
The Commission is an independent body which investigates possible miscarriages of justice.
And they can point to the miscarriages of justice that prove it.
The Court of Appeal rejected his case and twice the SCCRC, which looks into possible miscarriages of justice, refused to send it back.
And civil liberties groups also condemned the move, fearing the law could be used to persecute people and lead to miscarriages of justice.
John McManus, from the Miscarriages of Justice campaign and support group, said the case had all the hallmarks of a miscarriage of justice.
Most miscarriages of justice arise when police find untoward ways to vindicate their hunches: retrials would give them another chance to do so.
All through the 1970s and 1980s, under Labour and Conservative Governments, a key theme of legislation was around the prevention of miscarriages of justice.
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At the time of his death, his family were battling to refer his case to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, which investigates possible miscarriages of justice.
As extradition becomes speedier and procedures tighter, the risk of miscarriages of justice rises, and in a way that the humble and innocent may find difficult to resist.
The UK has also reopened some historic cases involving dead people, where there are suspected miscarriages of justice - but that did not mean putting a dead person on trial.
As the case has already been heard at the Court of Appeal, the lawyers say they will go to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, which investigates alleged miscarriages of justice.
It has not only failed to halt terrorism, it has often helped to fuel it by creating miscarriages of justice which have undermined rather than supported the rule of law.
Hasty trials raise fears of possible miscarriages of justice.
Doubts about the safety of the conviction began to spread when, in 1992, his case was one of 110 named as possible miscarriages of justice in a dossier given to the Home Office.
The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, which investigates possible miscarriages of justice had also taken up the case - after repeated applications - and asked appeal judges to look again at Beck's trial.
Winner of the 2004 Best Current Affairs Bafta Cymru award in 2004, Fair Cops? was an investigation into murder inquiries in South Wales after a series of miscarriages of justice dating back to the 1980s.
His case was referred to the Court of Appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission, an independent body which investigates possible miscarriages of justice, which found fresh evidence relating to the credibility of the prosecution case.
An inquiry into one of France's most egregious recent miscarriages of justice the imprisonment of 13 people wrongfully accused of running a paedophile ring in Outreau said one cause was the fact that the investigating judge was working entirely alone.
Lord Tebbit said concerns that such a penalty would lead to miscarriages of justice - with the innocent executed - would be mitigated by the care juries would take deliberating when they knew a person's life was at stake.
Liberal Democrat Home Affairs spokesman Chris Huhne said that the Appeal Court ruling "demonstrates how this Government has risked serious miscarriages of justice by entering into an inherently unbalanced treaty with the United States, which seriously undermines the rights of British citizens".
The strict reporting restrictions both before and during trials, the absence of television cameras and the rule against jurors speaking to anyone after a verdict would seem secretive to an almost sinister degree, inviting miscarriages of justice rather than serving as guarantees against them.
The most flagrant of these miscarriages of justice occurred in 1981, when the Motion Picture Academy chose Robert Redford's plodding direction of "Ordinary People" over Mr. Scorsese's bravura work in "Raging Bull, " which is the most powerful of the four films in this new DVD box.
Another calls for legal aid to be administered by an independent director - preventing the justice secretary from taking direct control of the legal aid budget, which would allow him to block funding for particular kinds of action, such as clinical negligence, welfare claims or miscarriages of justice against the police.
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