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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
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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
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and disparate counts within an indictment. The ability of the prosecution to introduce further evidence after the close of the prosecution case was curtailed as were several prejudicial practices with a defendant's previous
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to which referral had been solely discretionary and which could only consider points of law. Throughout the nineteenth century, there had been opposition from
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came under scrutiny, as did the practice of insisting that the defence proceed even in the case of an inadequate
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against such an appeal court with collateral right of appeal. However, disquiet over the convictions of
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led to the concession of a new court that could hear matters of law, fact or mixed law and fact.
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On 1 October 1966, the Court of Criminal Appeal was superseded by the Criminal Division of the
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magazine cartoon from 1890, noting then current discussion as to the need to relieve the
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case by the prosecution. The Court also did much to refine and systematise the
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Court of Criminal Appeal (disambiguation)
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Citation
7 Edw. 7

Punch
Home Secretary
Henry Matthews

English
appellate court
criminal cases
7 Edw. 7
Court for Crown Cases Reserved
lawyers
judges
Home Office
Adolf Beck
George Edalji
indictments
criminal record
trier of fact
law of evidence
Court of Appeal of England and Wales
Cornish & Clarke
Cornish & Clarke
Criminal Appeal Act 1966
ISBN
978-0-421-31150-3
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