Research Catalog

Title

English criminal appeals, 1844-1994 : appeals against conviction and sentence in England and Wales / Rosemary Pattenden.

Author

Pattenden, Rosemary.

Publication

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

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Description

xii, 494 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

• The failure of justice in the cases of the Birmingham Six, the Guildford Four, the Maguire Seven, and others in the late 1980s heightened public and media awareness of criminal appeals, a subject previously of interest mainly to convicted persons, legal practitioners, and judges involved in the appeal process.
• Practitioner's guides provided information on how to appeal convictions and sentences imposed in Magistrates' Courts and in the Crown Court, but there has been no literature which attempted a critical examination of the law and state of criminal appeals in England and Wales or any assessment of post-appeal remedies for those like the Birmingham Six, the Guildford Four, and the Maguire Seven, who did not initially succeed in having their convictions quashed on an appeal.
• English Criminal Appeals seeks to fill this gap, and in addition outlines the development of judicial and extra-judicial remedies against wrongful conviction and inappropriate sentence since the first bill to establish a court capable of reviewing convictions on indictment was debated in Parliament in 1844.

Series Statement

Oxford monographs on criminal law and justice

Uniform Title

Oxford monographs on criminal law and criminal justice.

Subjects

• Great Britain > Court of Appeal > Criminal Division > History
• Criminal procedure > Great Britain > History
• Appellate procedure > Great Britain > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. The Making of the Court of Criminal Appeal -- 2. The Court of Appeal, Criminal Division: An Overview -- 3. The Court of Appeal, Criminal Division: Procedures in Conviction Appeals -- 4. The Court of Appeal, Criminal Division: Powers in Conviction Appeals I -- 5. The Court of Appeal, Criminal Division: Powers in Conviction Appeals II -- 6. Conviction Appeals from Magistrates' Courts -- 7. Defence Appeals against Sentence -- 8. Crown Appeals -- 9. The House of Lords and Beyond -- 10. The Home Office and Post-Appeal Remedies.

ISBN

0198254059

LCCN

95042744

OCLC

• 33243214
• ocm33243214

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries