Criminal Appeals

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. In the second place, on a petition to the Home Office the prisoner's case only is before it. The result of that is that the Home Office has to discover the case against the prisoner, to test his conviction and his guilt in order to establish, if possible, his innocence. In the third place, there is no legal finality in the. Position of the Home Secretary. The consequence is that, although he might come to a clear and definite decision, he is always exposed to pressure to reconsider his decision. In the fourth place, the Home Office cannot, as a general rule, state its reasons for its decision.