On 27 July 2023, the Law Commission published Criminal appeals: issues paper and launched a consultation on appeals in criminal cases including the tests applied by the Court of Appeal and the Criminal Cases Review Commission as well as the laws that govern post-trial retention and disclosure of evidence. It aims to identify areas of law where reform is required to ‘enable the correction of miscarriages of justice and to ensure that appeals can be dealt with efficiently, effectively, appropriately and fairly’. The commission asks for responses to the issues paper from lawyers, academics, groups with an interest in miscarriages of justice, and those who have personally sought to appeal their conviction or sentence (successfully or not) and their families. The consultation closes on 31 October 2023, with a series of consultation events planned in the meantime. Following analysis of the results, the commission aims to publish a further consultation paper with provisional proposals in 2024, and a final report with recommendations in 2025.