Criminal Appeals - All You Need to Know

Introduction

This virtual classroom seminar will consider how cases are appealed at all levels whether that is from the Youth Court, Magistrates or Crown Court.

The course will take a highly practical approach and look at what you need to do to get an appeal heard, the time limits that apply and importantly how you are going to fund the case.

Once your appeal is underway it is vitally important that you also understand how to prepare for your appeal and how to present it in Court, this course will provide a raft of practical tips on how to go about that.

The live session will also look at applications to the Criminal Case Review Commission and also legal challenges whether that is to the Divisional Court by way of case stated, the Supreme Court or an application to the European Court of Human Rights.

Finally for those practitioners who are looking to undertake criminal appeal work the course will offer advice on how to make criminal appeal work pay. Also explored will be a compendium of the key appeal cases you need to know.

What You Will Learn

This live broadcast will cover the following:

• How to appeal a conviction or sentence from the Youth Court or Magistrates Court
• Preparing for and presenting an appeal before the Crown Court
• Making an application for appeal to the Court of Appeal
• Understanding the principle procedural requirements of the Court of Appeal, including the relevant criminal procedure guidance
• The legal and procedural requirements for fresh evidence cases before the court together with the particular issues that arise in expert evidence cases
• The specific considerations for sentence appeals
• How to conduct a range of other applications before the Court of Appeal
• How to secure permission to appeal and prepare for your appeal hearing
• Making challenges on points of law including:
• An application from the Youth or Magistrates Court to ‘state a case’
• An appeal to the Supreme Court from the Court of Appeal
• Making an application to the European Court of Human Rights
• How to fund your appeal cases at all levels
• Making criminal appeal work pay
• Case law on criminal appeals that you need to know

Recording of live sessions: Soon after the Learn Live session has taken place you will be able to go back and access the recording - should you wish to revisit the material discussed.