Glyn Maddocks specialises in all aspects of criminal appeal/miscarriage of justice work. He has considerable expertise in dealing with complex Appeal cases and has represented a number of clients who have had their convictions, in some cases for the most serious of crimes, referred to the Appeal Court by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) and before that by the Home Office. He also deals with claims
for compensation following a conviction being quashed.

In 2005 he represented Paul Blackburn whose conviction for attempted murder was quashed by the Court after he had spent nearly 25 years, from the age of 15, protesting his innocence. His other notable cases have been R v Kamara (2001), R v Frost (2003), R v Stock (1995) and (2004).

His current cases include the first where the CCRC has decided to refer a case back to the Court of Appeal for the second time and a “shaken baby” appeal which has come about following a review by the Attorney General of a number of historic convictions.For his work on miscarriage of justice cases, many of which he has dealt with on a pro bono basis, Glyn Maddocks was named Welsh Lawyer of the Year in 2005.

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