As an experienced appeals lawyer serving Parramatta, Lakemba, Auburn, Bankstown, Eastwood and the greater Sydney region, we provide specialized post-conviction representation and guidance for individuals seeking to challenge flawed judgments. Our services offer a crucial avenue for pursuing justice and rectifying legal errors that resulted in wrongful convictions or excessive sentences.
The appeals process allows convicted individuals to scrutinize their original trial proceedings and identify any defects, mistakes or Constitutional violations that may have unfairly impacted the verdict or sentencing determination. This includes potential grounds like insufficient evidence, prosecutorial misconduct, ineffective assistance from original defense counsel, improperly excluded/admitted evidence, faulty jury instructions, and factual or legal errors made by judges.
Our primary role is to thoroughly review all case materials, trial transcripts, legal filings, evidence submissions and sentencing calculations. Through this meticulous examination, often involving consultation with subject matter experts, we pinpoint any viable issues or valid grounds for appeal that can substantiate our arguments for conviction reversals or resentencing before higher courts.
Once potential appealable matters are identified, we methodically draft comprehensive briefs that clearly articulate the legal theories and precedents supporting our position. These briefs are then filed by strict deadlines and procedural rules with the appropriate appellate court – either the District Court, Supreme Court or High Court depending on where the alleged errors occurred.
If an appeal receives approval to proceed, we represent clients at oral argument hearings, presenting impactful verbal defences while deftly handling questions and pushback from judges on the appellate panel. Our advocacy calls for stringent legal reasoning, persuasive rhetoric and a nuanced understanding of appellate practices to effectively convey why convictions or sentences were unjustly rendered.
Success on appeal hinges on our ability to establish legitimate grounds rooted in errors of law or fact that violated your substantive legal rights during the original proceedings. This is why conducting an exhaustive multi-layered analysis of all case records is absolutely critical from the outset.
Why should you engage a criminal justice / criminal lawyer to work with you?
Given the complexity of criminal cases, particularly those involving serious offences heard in higher jurisdictions, numerous potential appealable issues may exist. These include problems areas like juror impartiality and misconduct, flawed eyewitness identification procedures, mishandling of forensic evidence, ineffectual cross-examination of hostile witnesses, constitutional suppression of evidence violations, and inappropriate application of sentencing guidelines amongst others.
Slight deviations from established procedures or case precedents can potentially invalidate convictions in whole or part given the prosecution’s substantial burden of proving guilt beyond any reasonable doubt. Similarly, miscalculated criminal histories or unsuitable weighing of aggravating/mitigating factors can result in disproportionately excessive sentences meriting judicial review.
Crucially, appeals must be initiated promptly according to strict filing deadlines and particularised content requirements that vary across each court level. Any failure to lodge appeals properly and within designated time constraints could result in automatic dismissals, underscoring the need for specialized legal representation.
Why work with us?
Navigating the complex appeals process as a self-represented litigant creates incredibly high risks of procedural deficiencies or substantive mistakes that could fatally undermine your prospects of securing relief. This is why retaining an experienced criminal appeals lawyer is so critically important.
Based in the heart of Parramatta with an intimate understanding of the district’s intricate criminal justice system, we offer comprehensive appellate representation seamlessly spanning all stages – from the initial record analysis and issue spotting phase through drafting briefs, filing requirements, oral arguments and any remand proceedings should convictions or sentences ultimately be overturned.
We have a duty to advise our client to seek for an appeal to a higher court when applicable, if we can establish that the verdict was unreasonable or cannot be supported on the evidence, that it was wrong in law; or that on any other ground there was a miscarriage of justice.
Our legal term will consider the best possible grounds of Appeal such as:
Improper exclusion or admission of evidence, false arrest, incorrect jury instructions, sentencing errors, incorrect jury instructions, and prosecutorial misconduct.
Our years of experience participating in a high volume of appellate cases before NSW’s various court levels allow me to deploy targeted strategies geared towards obtaining successful results for my clients. This could manifest as outright reversals if convictions were truly unsupported by evidence, or resentencing if original punishments were unlawfully disproportionate.
You can feel confident knowing we leverage specialized legal acumen joined with relentless advocacy to identify and articulately raise all plausible challenges surrounding your conviction or sentence. Our representation provides assurance that no viable avenues for relief will go unexplored or ignored as we pursue justice together.