Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, how many requests she has received to refer a point of law to the Court of Appeal under section 36 of the Criminal Justice Act 1972 in each of the last five years; and how many of those were granted.

The Attorney General’s Office does not routinely record the total number of requests received to refer a point of law to the Court of Appeal under section 36 of the Criminal Justice Act 1972.

In the last five years, Attorneys General have exercised this power on one occasion in the case of Attorney General's Reference No. 1 of 2022.