The Weekly Law Reports
[1968] 2 WLR 1062
[QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION]
LAWRENCE
v.
SAME
1968 Feb. 22
LORD PARKER C.J., WINN L.J. and ASHWORTH J.
Justices
— Appeal to quarter sessions
— Jurisdiction
— Appeal to quarter sessions against conviction for malicious wounding
— Conviction for common assault substituted
— Whether jurisdiction in quarter sessions or justices to convict of lesser offence.
Law Reform
— Whether necessary
— Justices
— Inability to substitute lesser sentence on appeal.