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✍️ Add your name to support fair compensation for the wrongfully convicted.

We’re calling on the Lord Chancellor to scrap the brutal 2014 test and ensure that those who’ve suffered wrongful imprisonment are treated with dignity — and fairly compensated.

We fight wrongful convictions and demand a fair justice system

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System snares, just for women APPEAL’s Camille Wrightson dives into our latest policy reform efforts to make sentences for women…

A victim twice over

A victim twice over APPEAL’s Matt Foot recounts the shocking story of Sam Hallam who was denied compensation for his…

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…

I was wrongly imprisoned for 17 years. Then the state released me into a legal maze

I was wrongly imprisoned for 17 years. Then the state released me into a legal maze   When I emerged…

Wrongly convicted Andrew Malkinson using food bank as he awaits payout

Wrongly convicted Andrew Malkinson using food bank as he awaits payout     Andrew Malkinson, who spent 17 years in…

End majority jury verdicts to prevent more justice ‘horror’, says Malkinson

End majority jury verdicts to prevent more justice ‘horror’, says Malkinson   Andrew Malkinson says he could have been spared…

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APPEAL’s team of specialist lawyers represent individuals who have been wrongfully convicted or unfairly sentenced. We investigate cases and present new evidence or legal arguments to the Court of Appeal or the Criminal Cases Review Commission. If you think you have been a victim of a miscarriage of justice and need our help, please click the button below.

The Wrong Man

Watch the BBC Two documentary The Wrong Man: 17 Years Behind Bars and hear Andy Malkinson’s story in his own words.

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  • Seventeen Years: The Andrew Malkinson Story

    Listen below to the incredible story of Andrew Malkinson, told by the Sunday Times podcast team.

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  • Shadow Worlds – Stolen Years

    How can a victim of a traumatic crime appear to be so sure, yet so wrong? In the first episode of Shadow World: Stolen Years, the BBC confronts the eyewitness evidence that helped convict Andrew Malkinson in 2004.

    Listen on BBC Sounds

  • Surviving Injustice

    Untold stories from the wrongfully convicted. A podcast from the Centre for Criminal Appeals.

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APPEAL is the working name of the Centre for Criminal Appeals, a Charitable Company Limited By Guarantee and a law practice authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

Registered Charity Number: 1144162 | SRA Authorisation Number: 621184 | Company Number: 07556168