§ Mr. MullinTo ask the Attorney-General how many convictions the Director of Public Prosecutions has defended before the Court of Appeal in each of the last five years; and in how many of these he did not express a view as to the innocence or guilt of the defendant.
§ The Attorney-GeneralRecords maintained by the Crown prosecution service do not include a total figure for the number of cases proceeding to the Court of Appeal as appeals against conviction. The total number of appeals against conviction heard by the Court of Appeal between 1986 and 1990 is set out in the table; the vast majority would have been conducted by the Crown prosecution service.
It is only where exceptional circumstances prevail that the Crown prosecution service does not seek to resist an appeal against conviction; the number of such cases arising in each of the last five years could be ascertained only by a disproportionate expense to the taxpayer.
Appeals against conviction heard by full court Number 1985 528 1986 534 1987 343 1988 420 1989 500 1990 1569 1To 30 November.