What jurisdiction does the Court of Appeal have over a criminal matter?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Ironeagle, 2000 SKQB 553 (CanLII):
The right of appeal in criminal cases is statutory. There is no inherent jurisdiction in any appeal court which can be exercised outside the provisions of the Criminal Code. (See Kourtesois v. M.N.R., 1993 CanLII 137 (SCC), [1993] 2 S.C.R. 53 at 69 and 70).
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