Section 2 Grounds for allowing appeal against conviction.
United Kingdom
Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Court of Appeal—
shall allow an appeal against conviction if it thinks that the conviction is unsafe; and
shall dismiss such an appeal in any other case.
If the Court allows an appeal against conviction it shall quash the conviction.
An order of the Court quashing a conviction shall, except when under section 6 of this Act the appellant is ordered to be retried, operate as a direction to the chief clerk acting for the court of trial to enter, instead of the record of conviction, a judgment and verdict of acquittal.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
S. 2(1) substituted (1.1.1996) by 1995 c. 35, s. 2(2); S.I. 1995/3061, art. 3
Modifications
- C1
S. 2(1) modified (4.5.2010) by The Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/2789 (N.I. 8)), arts. 1(2), 34(5); S.R. 2010/142, art. 2, Sch. para. 1
Notes on Part I
Modifications
- C1
Ss. 1-30 (Pt. I) extended (N.I.) (25.8.1996) by 1996 c. 22, ss. 11(6), 62(1) (with s. 62(2))