Appeals from the Crown Court

This article concerns appeals against decisions of the Crown Court of England and Wales.

[3] A conviction may be unsafe despite the applicant having pleaded guilty where: A conviction may be unsafe even if the appellant admitted his guilt at trial if an application that there was no case to answer was wrongly refused.

[3] The Court of Appeal may order a retrial where the interests of justice so require.

[7] The Court of Appeal may substitute for the verdict found by the jury a verdict of guilty of another offence, if the jury could have found him guilty of that offence and it appears to the Court of Appeal that the jury must have been satisfied of facts which proved him guilty of the other offence.

Any matter which need not be dealt with by the full court, including: Hooper; Ormerod; Murphy, eds.