Criminal Appeals Lawyers Association

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Steven Bird

Criminal defence solicitor recommended in legal directories runninf Police Station Advisers Index. Committee member...

Farrhat Arshad KC

Farrhat Arshad KC is a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers. She specialises in criminal appeal work. She is experienced in both appeals against conviction and sentence...

David Emanuel KC

David is a specialist appellate lawyer who has spent his career representing convicted defendants protesting their innocence. His meticulous dissection of...

Tom Wainwright

Tom has a formidable reputation in the appellate courts, with a strong track record of quashing convictions and reducing sentences both by way of...

Dr Laura Janes

Laura Janes was admitted as a solicitor in 2006. Laura is a consultant solicitor at Associates and GT Stewart Solicitors, where she conducts her criminal appeal work, and also...

Henry Blaxland KC

Widely recognised as a leading criminal silk, Henry Blaxland QC’s practice encompasses fraud, terrorism and homicide cases. He is often instructed in...

Greg Stewart

Since qualifying in the 1990s Greg has specialised in advocacy and appeals involving children and young people and he has been involved with many policy issues including...

Abigail Bright

Abigail's interest in CALA was spurred in January 2013 as a new tenant when Abigail's appeal against sentence was allowed (five years' replaced by...

Emma Torr

Emma is a barrister at APPEAL, a charity law practice that specialises in representing people who have been wrongly convicted or unfairly sentenced. Emma applies an investigative approach...

Claire Bostock

Claire is a criminal defence lawyer initially qualifying as a barrister (called to the English Bar in 1999) and then re-qualifying as a solicitor (admitted to the Roll in 2002). Claire has...

Claire Mawer

Claire defends in all areas of crime and has a developing appellate practice. In the last two years she has appeared in both the CACD and Divisional Court. Prior to being called to the bar Claire...

Rachel Pain

Rachel is a pupil criminal barrister at Mountford Chambers. She previously worked as a paralegal in the specialist Criminal Appeals team at GT Stewart. She has experience...

Grace Loncraine

Grace has worked exclusively in criminal defence since she qualified as a solicitor in 2018. In 2020 she joined Commons, a not-for-profit criminal defence firm with a focus on social justice. In 2022 she was asked to join the directorship.

Georgiana McCarthy

Georgiana is an experienced Chartered Legal Executive Litigator (Criminal Litigation) specialising in criminal appeals and general crime. She has developed a strong appeal practice over several years....

Tejal-Roma Williams

Criminal defence solicitor-advocate with over 14 years’ experience in both defence and prosecution, Tejal-Roma Williams specialises in serious and complex criminal cases.

Alannah Burdess

Alannah Burdess was introduced to criminal appeals work at the 2024 CALA Conference. She subsequently joined APPEAL as a volunteer before becoming....