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298    <h1 class='govuk-visually-hidden'>Criminal Cases Review Commission &ndash; Homepage</h1>        
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312                                The Criminal Cases Review Commission                            </span>
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316                        <p>You can apply for us to review your case if you think you have been wrongly sentenced or wrongly convicted of a criminal offence and you have lost your appeal. </p>                    </div>
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344<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-align-center is-style-wide"><strong>The CCRC is the independent body that investigates potential miscarriages of justice in England, Wales and Northern Ireland</strong></h2>
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356<li>Our service is free and we are unique &#8211; only the CCRC can send cases back to the courts for a fresh appeal</li>
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364<li>Applications can be made by anyone who believes they have been wrongly convicted or sentenced and who has lost an appeal. Only in exceptional circumstances will the CCRC consider an application from someone who has not first appealed through the courts. The CCRC is intended as a last resort, after all normal appeal options have been exhausted.</li>
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372<li>Since our creation in 1997, we have referred 920+ cases to the courts of people who applied to us &#8211; an average of around one referral every 11 days</li>
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398<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://ccrc.gov.uk/can-i-apply/">Applicants</a></h2>
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425<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://ccrc.gov.uk/case-library/">Case Library</a></h2>
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474<h4 class="wp-block-heading has-text-align-center"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QGS6NApQVY">Who are the CCRC &#8211; and how do we work?</a></h4>
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493<p class="wp-block-paragraph">We are the Criminal Cases Review Commission or ‘CCRC’ for short. We investigate miscarriages of justice in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.</p>
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497<p class="wp-block-paragraph">If you think you’ve been wrongly sentenced or wrongly convicted of a criminal offence and you’ve lost your appeal, you can apply to us free of charge.</p>
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501<p class="wp-block-paragraph">There’s no time limit on your application and we can look at old cases. If our investigation finds something new in your case, we can send it for a fresh appeal.</p>
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