In a multi handed case a Judge had carefully considered the evidence to support both discharging the jury member and the impact on the jury . The Court concluded that whilst the…
Category: Caselaw
R. (on the application of Bamber) v Crown Prosecution Service [2020 ] [2020] EWHC 1391 (Admin)
Judicial review was not the most suitable approach to challenging a refusal by the CPS of a request for disclosure of evidence which a man convicted of five murders said would undermine…
R v Gordon Park [2020] EWCA Crim 589 – weight of circumstantial evidence
A CCRC Referral fialed where the original case shifted by the time of the appeal with a DNA ground abandoned and the Court concluded that the weight of circumstantial evidence was not…
R. v Mohamed (Abdulkadir) [2020] EWCA Crim 525 – Identifcation Evidence unsafe
A robbery convction was unsafe where it was secured on the basis of identification evidence . Although the judge had given a full and proper Turnbull direction, part of his direction was…
R. v Foy (Nicholas John) [2020] EWCA Crim 270 – Need for finality in expert evidence
The court refused to admit fresh psychiatric evidence in support of a possible defence of diminished responsibility to a charge of murder. Diminished responsibility had not been pursued at trial, the opinion…
R. v Carter (Joseph) [2020] EWCA Crim 105 – autism did not justify absence from trial
A defendant’s trial for causing grievous bodily harm with intent had not been unfair given that he had deliberately absented himself from the trial process and deprived himself of his right to…
Regina v Sterling Christie, Winston Trew, George Griffiths [2019] EWCA Crim 2474 – police misconduct
In this CCRC Referral which followed the case of R v Stephen Simmons [2018] EWCA Crim 114 , these 1972 convictions were quashed on the basis that these were convictions arising out…
R. v Wilson (Jamie Lee) [2019] EWCA Crim 2410 – Court of Appeal has no jurisdiction on Summary matters sent to the Crown Court
The Court of Appeal Criminal Division did not have jurisdiction to hear an appeal against conviction for a summary offence which had been committed to the Crown Court under the Crime and…
R. v CCR. v Di Stefano (Giovanni) [2019] EWCA Crim 2101 – Registrar had no power to determine an application for leave to appeal
The Registrar of Criminal Appeals had no power to determine the substantive merits of an application for leave to appeal, but had to refer such applications to the full court pursuant to…
R v KK [ 2019 ] EWCA Crim 1634 – Jury Discharge Internet
In a complex Mutli Defendant Trial where a Jury member had accessed the internet and informed other Jurors that a Defendant had been previously convicted , the Court concluded it was necessary…