The Criminal Appeal Reports are a series of law reports of decisions of the Court of Criminal Appeal, the criminal division of the Court of Appeal and the

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from 15 May 1908 onwards. They are published by

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. Publication began in 1909 and have been edited by

Daniel Janner Daniel Joseph Mitchell Janner (born 27 April 1957) is a British King's Counsel, specialising in criminal law. He is the founder of the FAIR (Falsely Accused Individuals for Reform) campaign, through which he has played a key role in pushing for l ...

since 1994. As of 2008, they were published ten times each year. For the purpose of

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, their name may be abbreviated to "Cr App R", or to "CAR".

Glanville Williams Glanville Llewelyn Williams (15 February 1911 – 10 April 1997) was a Welsh legal scholar who was the Rouse Ball Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge from 1968 to 1978 and the Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at University ...

criticised the layout of the index in each volume of these reports. Volume 1 contains, in addition to the reports, a copy of the

Criminal Appeal Act 1907 The Court of Criminal Appeal was an English appellate court for criminal cases established by the Criminal Appeal Act 1907. It superseded the Court for Crown Cases Reserved to which referral had been solely discretionary and which could only co ...

, sections 9(5) and (6) of the Costs in Criminal Cases Act 1908, the

Criminal Appeal (Amendment) Act 1908 In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority. The term ''crime'' does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition,Farmer, Lindsay: "Crime, definitions of", in Can ...

, section 11 of the

Prevention of Crime Act 1908 Prevention may refer to: Health and medicine * Preventive healthcare, measures to prevent diseases or injuries rather than curing them or treating their symptoms General safety * Crime prevention, the attempt to reduce deter crime and crimin ...

and section 99(6) of the Children Act 1908.Herman Cohen (Editor). The Criminal Appeal Reports with subject index, tables of cases and statutes cited, and the Criminal Appeal Act, 1907, and amending and extending Acts: Volume I. Stevens and Haynes. Bell Yard, Temple Bar, London. 1909. Pages xi to xxx.

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Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations. Cardiff University. Case law reporters

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