The Court of Appeal Civil Division considers the applicable principles for judicial review of decisions made by the Criminal Cases Review Commission. In this case the Applicant had been convicted of murder and unsuccessfully appealed to the Court of Appeal Criminal Division in 1973. After five unsuccessful applications to the Home Secretary for a reference to the Court of Appeal he later applied to the CCRC who, ultimately referred his case to the Court of Appeal which again refused his appeal. He made 8 applications to the Commission between the dismissal of his appeal in 2002 and the application for judicial review in 2019 which resulted in the present appeal.
