Criminal Appeal (Northern Ireland) Act 1980 (c. 47)

Part I U.K. Appeal to Court of Appeal from Crown Court

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

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))

Appeal against conviction on indictment U.K.

2 Grounds for allowing appeal against conviction. U.K.

[F1 (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Court of Appeal—

(a) shall allow an appeal against conviction if it thinks that the conviction is unsafe; and

(b) shall dismiss such an appeal in any other case.]

(2) If the Court allows an appeal against conviction it shall quash the conviction.

(3) 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.

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 2(1) substituted (1.1.1996) by 1995 c. 35, s. 2(2); S.I. 1995/3061, art. 3

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C2 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