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- Criminal_Cases_Review_Commission abstract "The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) is the public body with statutory responsibility for investigating alleged miscarriages of justice in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It was established by Section 8 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1995 and started work investigating possible miscarriages of justice on 31 March 1997. The CCRC has the power to send, or refer, a case back to an appeal court if it considers that there is a real possibility the court will quash the conviction or reduce the sentence in that case.Between starting work in 1997 and the end of October 2013 the Commission referred 538 cases back to the appeal courts at an average of 33 referrals a year or almost one case every eight working days (see casework statistics below). Those referrals came from a total of 15,707 cases closed during that period. This means that the CCRC has referred for appeal 3.43%, or one in every 29, of the applications considered. Of the cases referred by the CCRC to the appeal courts, approximately 70% have succeed at appeal.The cases referred by the CCRC come generally from the most serious end of the criminal spectrum – just over 25% of referrals have been for murder convictions, almost 12% have been for rapes, and 8% have been for robberies. The rest relate to a mixture of other mostly serious and mostly indictable only offences.The Criminal Appeal Act 1995 that created the CCRC requires it to consider applications in relation to convictions from both the Crown Court and the Magistrates Court. Ninety per cent of all applications received, and 95% of all CCRC referrals, have related to Crown Court cases for which the appellate court is the Court of Appeal. Magistrates Court cases are appealed in the Crown Court.The CCRC currently receives around 1,500 applications a year. Applications are made in writing by people with criminal convictions or by their representatives. It is not necessary to have a lawyer to apply to the CCRC, but around half of all applicants are assisted by a lawyer.Applications can relate to conviction or sentence or both. Around 85% of CCRC referrals have related to convictions and 15% to sentences. A small handful of cases have been referred for both conviction and sentence. The CCRC is essentially a post-appeal organisation and applicants to it usually need to have appealed, or at least sought leave to appeal, before the Commission can agree to review their case. In some cases, where there are exceptional circumstances, the CCRC can review a case in the absence of a prior attempt to appeal.In order to be able to refer a case for appeal, the Commission will usually have to identify some new evidence or new legal argument that makes the case look significantly different. That evidence or argument will have to be new in the sense that it was not considered at the time of the trial, at the appeal, and has not been considered in an earlier application to the CCRC. Again, there is an "exceptional circumstances" caveat in the Criminal Appeal Act 1995 that allows the CCRC to refer cases where evidence or argument is not new, but instances of cases being referred under such circumstances are extremely rare. In 2009 the CCRC’s jurisdiction was extended to cover convictions and or sentences arising from the Court Martial or Service Civilian Court after 31 October 2009.The CCRC is an independent non-departmental public body (NDPB) funded by way of a cash grant from the Ministry of Justice. It is based in Birmingham and has around 90 staff plus Commissioners.[1] The CCRC's budget for 2013/14 is £5.2million.Scotland has its own legal system and there is a separate Scottish CCRC. [2]".
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