§ Sir P. Rawlinsonasked the Attorney General in the years 1974 and 1975, how many appeals in the Court of Appeal were (a) set down for hearing, (b) disposed of by the appeal, and (c) withdrawn or struck out.
The Attorney GeneralDuring 1974, 1,177 appeals were set down in the Court of Appeal, Civil Division: 641 appeals were disposed of by the appeal and 444 were withdrawn, struck out or otherwise disposed of. The equivalent figures for 1975—provisional only—are 1,302, 876 and 376. In the Criminal Division 5,313 appeals were registered during 1974: 5,087 appeals were terminated, 2,409 of these by a hearing of the full court. The equivalent figures for 1975—provisional only—are 6,107, 5,524 and 2,523.