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EXPENSIVE LEGAL ASSISTANCE – BEWARE. There are many groups out there who are ready to take advantage of vulnerable victims of miscarriages of justice by charging them a great deal of money for providing sub-standard assistance. They attempt to protect themselves from prosecution by using sentences in their advertising like “we are not solicitors or barristers and nothing here should be taken or considered as legal advice” and “we are not trained or authorised to act as a solicitor or barrister.”
In short, they are confirming in the small print that they are not qualified to provide full and accurate legal advice. In many cases, you can save thousands of pounds just by doing most of the work yourself. After all, you know your case better than anyone. So how do you do it? The goal is to write a document, which contains only facts (no waffle) showing clearly why your convictions are unsafe in law.
Saying: “I didn’t do it and everyone knows I didn’t do it” is waffle, contains no factual evidence and is even wrong (as the prosecution clearly felt that you were guilty). Rather, fill your document with things like “At the time of the alleged offence, I was 25 miles away from the scene and I have now been able to obtain photographic evidence of this from CCTV footage.”
This provides details of new evidence and explains what the new evidence will achieve. Finally, while including all the important facts, keep the document as short as possible – it’s often the case that the more you write, the less the reader will read! Only then should you consider getting a solicitor to check your work for a small fee.
The advice in it about fresh evidence seems to be ok however the 1st bit is improtant. I think it is about a certain "legal enquiry agent" although I can't be sure. A man in a prison I visit says that the enquiry agent did no work at all as opposed to work that was substandard on his case and just put him in touch with expensive solicitors and a barrister
EXPENSIVE LEGAL ASSISTANCE – BEWARE. There are many groups out there who are ready to take advantage of vulnerable victims of miscarriages of justice by charging them a great deal of money for providing sub-standard assistance. They attempt to protect themselves from prosecution by using sentences in their advertising like “we are not solicitors or barristers and nothing here should be taken or considered as legal advice” and “we are not trained or authorised to act as a solicitor or barrister.”
In short, they are confirming in the small print that they are not qualified to provide full and accurate legal advice. In many cases, you can save thousands of pounds just by doing most of the work yourself. After all, you know your case better than anyone. So how do you do it? The goal is to write a document, which contains only facts (no waffle) showing clearly why your convictions are unsafe in law.
Saying: “I didn’t do it and everyone knows I didn’t do it” is waffle, contains no factual evidence and is even wrong (as the prosecution clearly felt that you were guilty). Rather, fill your document with things like “At the time of the alleged offence, I was 25 miles away from the scene and I have now been able to obtain photographic evidence of this from CCTV footage.”
This provides details of new evidence and explains what the new evidence will achieve. Finally, while including all the important facts, keep the document as short as possible – it’s often the case that the more you write, the less the reader will read! Only then should you consider getting a solicitor to check your work for a small fee.
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