✍️ 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.

Compensation Postcard Website Banner

✍️ 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

Trawl for unsafe criminal convictions being done by interns

Trawl for unsafe criminal convictions being done by interns   Interns have been given the job of weeding out potential…

Criminal Cases Review Commission apologises to Andrew Malkinson for handling of case

Criminal Cases Review Commission apologises to Andrew Malkinson for handling of case   The chair of the Criminal Cases Review…

Andrew Malkinson criticises apology from Criminal Cases Review Commission after he was wrongly jailed for 17 years

Andrew Malkinson criticises apology from Criminal Cases Review Commission after he was wrongly jailed for 17 years     A…

Andy Malkinson: DNA warnings made years before rape case overturned

Andy Malkinson: DNA warnings made years before rape case overturned   The body that investigates potential wrongful convictions was warned…

Andrew Malkinson: Police investigated over man’s wrongful jailing

Andrew Malkinson: Police investigated over man’s wrongful jailing   The police watchdog is investigating how Greater Manchester Police (GMP) handled…

Andrew Malkinson: Government announces inquiry into wrongful rape conviction

Andrew Malkinson: Government announces inquiry into wrongful rape conviction   An inquiry has been announced into one of the worst…

Get Help

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.

Watch

  • The Wrong Man: 17 Years Behind Bars

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

     

    Watch on BBC iPlayer

     

    The Wrong Man: 17 Years Behind Bars
  • The Accused: Beyond Reasonable Doubt?

    Watch Channel 4's documentary examining the case of our client Eddie Gilfoyle.

     

    Watch on Channel 4

     

    The Accused: Beyond Reasonable Doubt?

Listen

  • Seventeen Years: The Andrew Malkinson Story

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

    More Episodes

  • 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.

    Listen on Spotify

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