§ Mr. SweeneyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give the number of cases and defendants for each year since 1971 where the original verdict of guilt was overturned on subsequent appeal.
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§ Mr. JackInformation on the number of appeals against conviction by result has been published annually in the Command Paper "Criminal Statistics England and Wales". Table 6.7 of the 1980 publication gives requested data back to 1972. Similarly table 6.6 of the 1990 volume gives requested data back to 1981. Copies of these publications are available in the Library.
Table 1 Appeals against conviction1 disposed of, by court and result England and Wales Number of appellants Year The Crown Court The Court of Appeal Total Number of appellants Result Total Number of appellants Result Conviction quashed2,3 Conviction quashed3 Conviction confirmed or appeal abandoned Number Percentage of number of appellants Conviction confirmed or appeal abandoned Number Percentage of number of appellants 1981 6,202 4,514 1,688 27 1,418 1,282 136 10 1982 6,083 4,393 1,690 27 1,352 1,239 113 8 1983 6,420 4,532 1,888 29 1,421 1,287 134 9 1984 6,769 5,013 1,756 26 1,735 1,549 186 11 1985 7,383 5,560 1,823 25 1,397 1,228 169 12 1986 6,473 4,737 1,736 27 1,892 1,730 162 9 1987 5,893 4,100 1,793 30 1,129 995 134 12 1988 5,527 3,783 1,744 32 1,267 1,136 131 10 1989 6,705 4,467 2,238 33 1,578 1,404 174 11 1990 8,076 5,368 2,708 34 1,634 1,436 198 12 41991 8,537 5,287 3,250 38 1,711 1,488 223 13 1 Including appeals against both conviction and sentence (3,663 at the Crown Court and 777 at the Court of Appeal in 1991). 2 Including cases remitted to magistrates' courts. 3 Including cases in which a retrial was ordered but excluding cases in which the conviction was quashed on some counts but confirmed on others, or a conviction for a lesser offence was substituted. 4 Estimated—see note 3.