I'd be happy to address that.
Our proposal with respect to the unsafe verdict is to introduce a new ground of appeal—not to lower any thresholds. This ground of appeal exists in the United Kingdom already. It fills a gap in our current appellate process. There is no ground of appeal that one can advance to determine whether a conviction is unsafe, except apart from legal errors that might exist.
The only mechanism that exists is the “unreasonable verdict” ground of appeal, which is an exceptionally high threshold. So long as the verdict is one that could reasonably arise on the evidence, it is withstood on appeal. That means that there is a swath of cases where a judge at the court of appeal might feel the conviction is unsafe, that they would have acquitted, but they can't intervene, because a conviction is one of the reasonable—