Father Patrick Fell (born 1940) is a Roman Catholic priest who was convicted in the 1970s of being a commander of a IRA active service unit. In June 1984 he was successful in his action to find the British Government guilty of violating the European Convention on Human Rights. The Government had denied the right of legal representation to prisoners facing internal prison disciplinary charges. Fell was born in England and was a convert to Catholicism before joining the Priesthood. He was assistant priest at All Souls Church, Earlsdon, Coventry. Fell never admitted IRA membership.