Crown Court (Northern Ireland)

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many and what percentage of Crown court sentences in Northern Ireland were successfully appealed by (a) the Crown and (b) the defendant in each of the last five years. (89739)

I have been asked to reply.

The number and percentage of Crown court sentences successfully appealed in Northern Ireland, based on the year the appeal was lodged, is as follows:

*Crown (by way of Attorney-General reference)*
	Number of appeals lodged	Number of successful appeals	Percentage of successful appeals
2001	3	3	100
2002	5	1	20
2003	17	12	71
2004	18	6	33
2005	13	6	46

*Defendants*
	Number of appeals lodged	Number of successful appeals	Percentage of successful appeals	Number outstanding	Percentage outstanding
2001	53	17	32	0	0
2002	47	13	28	2	4
2003	49	17	35	1	2
2004	64	8	13	5	8
2005	34	5	15	9	26

Volume 450: debated on Thursday 12 October 2006