Submitting a case
If you have been wrongfully convicted or if you have a friend or family member who has been wrongfully convicted and you are seeking assistance to have the wrongful conviction overturned please write to the Sellenger Centre Criminal Justice Review Project for assistance in reviewing your wrongful conviction.
They will send you an applicant questionarre to fill out in order for them to consider the merits of your application. Should your application fit into the proper parameters of the project the students will request further information from yourself or the applicant before pursing avenues for appeal.
The Sellenger Centre Criminal Justice Review Project (CCR)
The Sellenger Centre Criminal Justice Review Project is driven by students, senior lawyers and scholars who collaborate in an environment dedicated to the pursuit of justice.
The students work hands on under the supervision of an academic and a busy criminal barrister to take each assigned case as far as possible towards potential appeal.
Students working in the Project are involved with the case management and investigation of potentially innocent but convicted persons claiming to be innocent; the project is not involved in rehashing legal issues, but looking for new or fresh evidence of innocence.
Investigatory work has previously included meeting with applicants; liaising with professionals in the field including forensic experts, investigators and prison personnel; revisiting crime scenes; and the critical analysis of disclosed police materials, forensic reports, trial and appeal transcripts and other relevant documentation comprising the body of evidence in a case.
Sellenger Centre Criminal Justice Review Project
School of Law and Justice
Edith Cowan University
270 Joondalup Drive
Joondalup WA 6027
pamela.henry@ecu.edu.au
> How does the appeal process work ?
The Court of Appeal is in charge of hearing criminal appeals against conviction and an appeal is normally heard in front of three judges.The Court of Criminal Appeal may refuse an appeal, order a retrial or quash (put an end to) a criminal conviction.
Click here to be directed to the Supreme Court of W.A's Website to read about The Court of Criminal Appeal, How to commence an Appeal, Steps in an Appeal, Preparing appeal books, Technical Requirments for Appeal Books and about Court of Appeal Hearings.
The information provided in those pages is to assist you in preparing your appeal papers, it is not legal advice. You may wish to contact a lawyer, Legal Aid of Western Australia, the Law Society of Western Australia or one of the Community Legal Centres to see if they can offer you any assistance in lodging your appeal as the Sellenger Innocence Project assists persons who have already exhausted these avenues.
Please Note: There are strict time limits which govern when appeals may be lodged. The parties have 21 days from the date of the decision to be appealed, to lodge the appeal notice.
If the notice is not lodged in this time an extension of time within which to lodge the appeal notice must be sought.
The Sellenger Innocence Project cannot give litigants legal advice, nor recommend what litigants should do in regard to their case.
