... appropriate to ascribe this comprehensive mission statement, to some extent, to the CA itself. This Court's role in reducing crime and the fear thereof is perhaps not as significant as its role in the fair and efficient dispensation of justice and the promotion of confidence in the rule of law, and of these two it is arguable that the CA is more chiefly concerned with the dispensation of justice; in the sense that its basic function is to examine earlier proceedings in order to assure itself and the applicant that justice was dispensed fairly and efficiently. It does not seek to re-try the case on its facts, or to comment on the appellant's guilt or innocence: the CA seeks merely to examine the circumstances of an earlier trial in order to decide whether those circumstances are such as to render a conviction 'unsafe' or 'unsatisfactory'. However, details of its particular ...

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