Our Impact Report 2023-24

Impact Report 2023/2024 What a year it has been for APPEAL! Last July after many years of hard work our client Andrew Malkinson won his appeal at the Court of Appeal. Andy was finally able to achieve justice and the outpouring of support from the public has been extraordinary. The magnitude of the fallout from…

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Doubt Dismissed

Doubt Dismissed Race, Juries and Wrongful Conviction Nisha Waller and Naima Sakande /// Jan 2024 Nisha Waller and Naima Sakande hold up their report Doubt Dismissed at the launch party in May 2024 In May 2024, APPEAL published a report on the hidden racist and classist intent behind the 1967 introduction of majority jury verdicts…

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Mehmet and Peterkin

Saliah Mehmet and Basil Peterkin: posthumously cleared after 46 years vindication at last for rail workers framed by racist, corrupt british transport officer derek ridgewell The families of Saliah Mehmet and Basil Peterkin alongside Winston Trew of the Oval Four and APPEAL Co-Director Matt Foot, moments after the two men were posthumously cleared by the…

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Tried by our own peers

Tried by our own peers APPEAL’s Nisha Waller explores the racist origins behind majority jury verdicts Andrew Malkinson’s exoneration in July last year rightly raised doubts about the credibility of the police and Crown Prosecution Service. But the jury, who determined his guilt, was untouched by scrutiny. Malkinson firmly asserts that his jury is not…

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Calls to end ‘majority jury verdicts’ after research into wrong convictions

Calls to end ‘majority jury verdicts’ after research into wrong convictions   A LEGAL justice charity wants Britain’s jury process changed to stop “majority verdicts” being used to convict people of serious crimes, warning that it stems from a “racist and classist” reform from the 1960s. Appeal, based in Clerkenwell, said that judges should only…

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Inspiration behind APPEAL’s research into majority jury verdicts: the USA campaign

Inspiration behind APPEAL’s research into majority jury verdicts: the USA campaign   Until APPEAL’s ground breaking report Doubt Dismissed, published in May 2023, the origins of majority verdicts in England and Wales had not previously been subject to academic study.   However, their origins in the USA had been scrupulously researched. Behind the movement that…

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Is our jury system a vestige of white supremacy?

Is our jury system a vestige of white supremacy? Nisha Waller /// 31 October 2022 Pauline and Ashley have been fighting for justice for decades in a case that saw their loved on convcited on a 10/2 jury verdict despite flimsy evidence To be convicted of a criminal offence in England and Wales, a prosecutor…

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