The Lord Justice of Appeal, with the title of Vice-President of the Criminal Division, assists the Lord Chief Justice on the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales is the second-highest judge of the Courts of England and Wales, after the Lord Chancellor, and the presiding judge of Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal, and of the Queens Bench Division of the High Court. ... Her Majestys Court of Appeal is the second most senior court in the English legal system (with only the judges of the House of Lords above it). ...
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It is clear that for the purposes of an appeal against the verdict of the trial court, the same provisions apply as in the case of the verdict of a jury, subject to the substitution of references to the trial court in place of references to the jury.
The respective roles of the appeal court and the court by which issues of fact are resolved and guilt is determined are not changed by the fact that the normal arrangements have been modified by the Order in Council, and in particular by the requirement that the trial court should deliver a reasoned judgment.
In order that the matters raised in the grounds of appeal may be understood in their proper context, we propose at this stage to summarise the relevant law and the judgment, with particular reference to the issues with which we are concerned.
Lord Denning was a judge for 38 years, retiring at the age of 83 in 1982.
Only four years later he was appointed a LordJustice of Appeal as well as a Privy Counsellor, and in 1957 he became a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary with a life peerage as Baron Denning, of Whitchurch in the County of Southampton.
Court of Appeal judges sit in threes, and the Lords in fives (or more) so it was suggested that to get his way in the Court of Appeal Denning only had to persuade one other judge - in the House of Lords it was two.
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