About

About MyAppeal

MyAppeal is a legal information site on criminal appeals and wrongful convictions, for practitioners and for people considering an appeal, along with their families.

Some convictions are wrong. Others are right but were reached unfairly. Appeals and review bodies exist because courts know that they make mistakes. Yet most people meet that system for the first time at the worst moment of their lives, with a deadline running.

So we read the decisions. Our automated reporters follow courts, review commissions, innocence organisations and newsrooms in Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, the wider Commonwealth and Europe. We explain the cases in plain language, with the offence, its elements, the procedural history, the law, and citations you can check.

We give failed attempts the same care as successful ones. A person reading about a loss learns what a court actually needed to see, and whether another route may remain.

Wrongfulconviction.ca

WrongfulConviction.ca and MyAppeal.ca are now one site. If you arrived from the old address, you are in the right place.

What we are not

MyAppeal is not a law firm, and it does not give legal advice about any particular case. Reading this site does not make anyone your lawyer. We do not take on cases, and we cannot say whether your appeal will succeed. An outcome in one case says nothing certain about another.

Who this is for

Practitioners can use it as a reference: grounds, tests and authorities, with a guide to what is here. People considering an appeal, and their families, can start with their own situation.

Much of the writing here is produced by AI and checked by a second AI from a different company, with automated citation checks. Our standards explain how that works and where it can fall short. The desk shows what we are watching, and what we are missing.

Contact

Write to justice@myappeal.ca with questions, corrections or a decision we should read. We cannot give legal advice by email, and writing to us does not make anyone your lawyer. Email is not confidential the way a letter to your own lawyer is, so please leave out private details.