I hope you are all well!
Please can you help with a questionnaire for a piece of research.
The purpose of the research is to explore the barriers faced by women seeking to appeal convictions and sentences from the Crown Court to the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). The research is being done through the Griffins Fellowship, which encourages new thinking about women and girls in the criminal justice system, and is hosted by the Institute of Criminology at Cambridge University.
Given the well documented challenges faced by women sentenced to custody, and the fall in the number of criminal appeals across the system, this research project seeks to find out whether or not the criminal appeal system is accessible to women and to identify what the particular barriers to appealing convictions and sentences for women may be.
One of the ways they hope to find out, is by asking lawyers and legal professionals to fill out a questionnaire to better understand how lawyers work within the criminal appeals system and their experiences of representing women in it. All answers to this survey will be anonymous in the final paper.
The survey can be found here and it will be open until 31st August 2019: https://forms.gle/9G8fMBsRgBnxuVKd6
You can also fill out the form on their website here: http://appeal.org.uk/access-to-justice-for-women-in-the-court-of-appeal-criminal-division
For further information please contact:
Naima Sakande Women's Justice Advocate
APPEAL
Room 29, 2-10 Princeton Street, London, WC1R 4BH
naima@appeal.org.uk | 020 7040 0019/020 7836 2830
Many thanks
Sara Boxer
sarsboxer@gmail.com
07974 395 156
