Appeal outcomes

Court of Appeal outcomes - Applications by ODPP

Table 8.1. Appeal against Sentence

Outcome	Allowed	Dismissed	Other	Withdrawn/ abandoned	Total
Jul-23	0	1	0	0	1
Aug-23	0	0	0	0	0
Sep-23	1	0	0	0	1
Oct-23	0	0	0	0	0
Nov-23	1	2	0	0	3
Dec-23	0	0	0	0	0
Jan-24	0	0	0	1	1
Feb-24	2	0	0	0	2
Mar-24	1	2	0	0	3
Apr-24	2	0	0	0	2
May-24	1	0	0	0	1
Jun-24	1	0	0	0	1
Total	9	5	0	1	15

Table 8.2. Appeal Against Acquittal/Verdict

Outcome	Allowed	Dismissed	Other	Withdrawn/ abandoned	Total
Jul-23	0	0	0	0	0
Aug-23	0	0	0	0	0
Sep-23	0	0	0	0	0
Oct-23	0	0	0	0	0
Nov-23	0	0	0	0	0
Dec-23	0	0	0	0	0
Jan-24	0	0	0	0	0
Feb-24	0	0	0	0	0
Mar-24	0	0	0	0	0
Apr-24	2	0	0	0	0
May-24	0	0	0	0	0
Jun-24	0	0	0	0	0
Total	0	0	0	0	0

Note: There were some appeals heard in 2023-24 but the judgements were not handed down in the financial year. They will be included in the 2024 - 25 Annual Report.

Data from previous years is available at: https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset

Applications by Defence

Table 8.3. Appeal against Sentence

Outcome	Allowed	Dismissed	Other	Withdrawn/ abandoned	Total
Jul-23	1	0	0	0	1
Aug-23	1	0	0	0	1
Sep-23	1	4	0	0	5
Oct-23	0	2	0	0	2
Nov-23	1	4	0	0	5
Dec-23	0	0	0	0	0
Jan-24	0	0	0	1	1
Feb-24	0	4	0	0	4
Mar-24	0	1	0	0	1
Apr-24	0	1	0	1	2
May-24	4	2	0	0	6
Jun-24	2	2	0	0	4
Total	10	20	0	2	32

Table 8.4 Appeal Against Conviction

Outcome	Allowed	Dismissed	Other	Withdrawn/ abandoned	Total
Jul-23	0	0	0	0	0
Aug-23	0	2	0	2	4
Sep-23	1	1	0	0	2
Oct-23	3	0	0	0	3
Nov-23	0	1	0	0	1
Dec-23	5	1	0	0	6
Jan-24	0	0	0	0	0
Feb-24	0	3	0	0	3
Mar-24	1	4	0	0	5
Apr-24	1	2	0	0	3
May-24	1	6	0	0	7
Jun-24	0	1	0	0	1
Total	12	21	0	2	35

High Court (All applications by Defence)

Table 9.1 Special Leave to Appeal Applications

Special leave applications	Granted/conceded	Refused
Conviction	0	1
Sentence	0	1
Other	0	0

Note: Conviction includes all Court of Appeal judgements relating to criminal proceedings except sentence.

Table 9.2 High Court Appeals

High Court Appeal	Dismissed	Allowed
Conviction	1	0
Sentence	0	0
Other	0	0