Court of Criminal Appeal (England and Wales)
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 7 Edw. 7 . c. 23 |
Mr. P. (sympathetically). "Why, indeed? But I don't see any Help for it till we get a Court of Criminal Appeal."
Punch magazine cartoon from 1890, noting then current discussion as to the need to relieve the Home Secretary, Henry Matthews, of the responsibility for determining criminal case appeals.
The Court of Criminal Appeal was an
Though the court was staffed with the judges who had shown such hostility (consisting of the Lord Chief Justice and eight judges of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court), it had a restraining effect on the excesses of prosecutors. During the period 1909–1912, there was an average of 450 annual applications for leave to appeal of which an average of 170 were granted. Of that 170, conviction was quashed in 20 percent of cases and sentence varied in another 22 per cent. Rulings of the court included limitation of the lower courts' ability simultaneously to try multiple defendants, multiple
On 1 October 1966, the Court of Criminal Appeal was superseded by the Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.[4][5]
References
- ^ Cornish & Clarke (1989) p.619
- ^ Cornish & Clarke (1989) p.620
- ^ Davies (1949)
- ^ Criminal Appeal Act 1966
- ^ Lord Mackay of Clashfern (ed.) (2002) Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th ed. Vol.10 (Reissue), "Courts", 634 'Divisions of the Court of Appeal'
Bibliography
- Cornish, W.; Clarke, G. (1989). Law and Society in England 1750-1950. London: Sweet & Maxwell. pp. 619–623. ISBN 978-0-421-31150-3.
- Davies, S. (1949) Journal of the Society of Public Teachers of Law (new series) 425