Position: Managing Director / Casework Lawyer, Centre for Criminal Appeals (www.criminalappeals.org.uk) 
Salary: £36k-£42k per annum, depending on experience
Closing date: 1st May 2016, midnight.  

You see the leaders of NGOs that address international human rights violations calling out the criminal justice systems of other countries on Newsnight, and you wonder when someone is going to point out that British Justice is in a similar state of disarray. 

You have done a few years in the trenches as a criminal defence practitioner and you have seen how legal aid is failing the most vulnerable of criminal defendants.  You long to do your job better, but the someone is always on your back about billing. 

You want to represent individuals who cannot afford to pay for a lawyer with the same care and attention that wealthy litigants buy for hundreds of pounds an hour. You would rather be out interviewing witnesses and visiting the scene of a crime looking for fresh evidence than be chained to your desk. You embrace the opportunities for more efficient and more effective case analysis and team communications offered by technology. 

You are bold and creative, unafraid to stand up for the poor and marginalised and to challenge the system that fails them, in the court of public opinion as well as courts of law.  You are ready to help build an organisation that aims to demonstrate why miscarriages of justice and disproportionate sentencing are happening in the first place and to stop the system from making the same mistakes over and over again. If we hadn’t already started the Centre for Criminal Appeals, you might well have done so yourself.

We want to hear from you. 

Job description and person specification: http://www.criminalappeals.org.uk/blog/2016/3/30/cca-are-seeking-a-managing-director-casework-lawyer or click the Apply button.