English Criminal Appeals 1844-1994: Appeals Agains Conviction and Sentence in England and Wales

by Rosemary Pattenden

The failure of justice in the cases of the Birmingham Six, the Guildford Four, the Maguire Seven and others in the late 1980s heightened public and media awareness of criminal appeals, a subject previously of interest mainly to legal practitioners and judges involved in the appeal process. Practitioners' guides provided information on how to appeal convictions and sentences imposed in magistrates' courts and in the Crown Court, but there was no literature...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198254059
• ISBN13: 9780198254058
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.5"