How many students are needed to run an innocence project?
The size of our member innocence projects vary, ranging from smaller projects consisting of 5-8 students working on 1 or 2 cases, to larger projects with over 70 students working on up to 10 cases. The amount of management required and the organisational model therefore differs depending on the size and scale of the project. A typical model adopted by most member innocence projects is for students to work in smaller ‘Firms’, with each firm tasked with 1 to 3 cases (at varying stages of casework), and led by a ‘Firm Manager’ (usually a final year student who has completed the INUK training) whose role is to arrange firm meetings, allocate work to members, and report directly to the staff supervisor. The ways in which student members are organised may also have to be slightly adapted depending on the stage of development of the innocence project. In the early days of an innocence project, where students may be awaiting case documents, there may not be a substantial amount of investigativ
