Being charged with a crime can be devastating. Even if you don’t go to jail, criminal convictions can stay on your record for years, preventing you from getting jobs, promotions, housing, and scholarships, and often making you lose your driver’s license, your right to own a gun, your ability to volunteer, and even your chosen career. Sometimes a simple mistake can end up costing you decades of trouble and tens of thousands of pounds over a lifetime.

Family law cases are often some of the toughest cases in the law. Usually, you are fighting for your rights to be with your own children and your rights to keep your home or other marital property. If you lose a divorce or custody case, your relationship with you children can be damaged or disrupted, and you may have property that is rightfully yours taken from you from your former spouse or partner. Also, the other person involved is often dishonest and vindictive and will try to make life hard for you.

Sometimes an appeal is your only option when mistakes have been made by the court system or when you've received overly-punitive treatment from a judge. Many people believe the system will be fair and will achieve the correct result. But because the system and the people who are in it are flawed, mistakes are made. Appeals are known to be difficult and expensive, but if the errors are severe enough and will have significant consequences for your life, your best chance is to have the case overturned by an appeal.