CBA Lecture: ‘Applicants’ experience of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC).’

Dr Lucy Welsh is a Reader (Assoc. Professor) in Criminal Justice at the University of Sussex, where she is also the Director of Clinical Legal Education with overall responsibility for Sussex’s nine law clinics. Formerly a defence solicitor conducting mostly publicly funded work, Lucy has a long-standing interest in all aspects of criminal law and criminal justice, including access to justice, criminal appeals, and the legal profession, and she has published extensively on these issues. She is lead author of Sanders and Young’s Criminal Justice (5th Edn) and has (co)authored two monographs: Access to Justice in Magistrates’ Courts (Hart Publishing, 2022) and Observing Justice (Bristol University Press, 2023). Among other grants, Lucy was most recently awarded funding by the Nuffield Foundation to undertake work on experiences of access to justice, public funding cuts, and criminal appeals. In addition to her academic work, Lucy is Chair of the Committee on the Legal Profession for the APPG on Miscarriages of Justice, and an Advisory Group member of Transform Justice’s CourtWatch project. 

The report Dr. Welsh helped to write and summaries are online, here