This was a Referral in relation to post office workers who had been convicted of dishonesty broadly under circumstances where post office accounting software and procedures might have falsely reported omissions that…
Category: Caselaw
R v SL 2021] EWCA Crim 178 – Reminding of the Jury of ABE errors do not necessarily render a conviction unsafe
In a Sexual Offence Case a Jury wanted a reminder of aspects of the ABE evidence. This was properly done as required in Open Court and the Judge proceeded to repeat verbatim…
R. v BTT[2021] EWCA Crim 4 – Criminal Exploitation and inconsistent accounts
This was a leave to appeal case but builds upon the interesting issues relating to criminal exploitation and the case of DPP v M recently reported in this blog. It was taken…
R. (on the application of Financial Conduct Authority) v Abdel-Malek – Not the role of the Court of assess the “Feel of a Trial “
This was an appeal in a complex fraud case, the Court carefully assessed the fresh evidence to determine whether this would have an impact on the safety of the conviction but declined…
DPP v M [2020] EWHC 3422 (Admin) – Expert Evidence Criminal Exploitation
A conclusive grounds decision made by the Single Competent Authority appointed under the National Referral Mechanism Reform Programme was admissible as evidence in criminal proceedings in determining whether a defendant was a…
R. v Ferris (Chad Alfred)[2020] NICA 60 – Fresh Evidence in Sentence Appeals
This case dealt with the more unusual use of fresh evidence – in an appeal on sentence. In particular an offender sought to rely on the fact that Four years had passed…
R v Porch [2020 ] EWCA Crim 1633 – Failure to adduce phone evidence renders conviction unsafe – the crown do not need to be at fault
In this interesting case the Court of Appeal allowed an extension of 1164 days to admit fresh evidence regarding phone records which due to various circumstances were not available at the time…
RT & MAM v R [2020] EWCA Crim 1343 – Hearsay Deceased Complainant , unknown victim and “lies ” not enough to defeat principles in Riat
We have written a number of times over the evolution of the law on how to deal with deceased complainants under the hearsay provisions and this interesting case adds a new dimension…
R v Crampton [2020] EWCA Crim 1334 – Facebook Identification was properly admitted despite breach of the Code – Not a Lurking Doubt Case
This was a cold case involving an allegation of abuse which occurred in 1996 but was not reported until 2018. The circumstances of the reporting arose following a search of Facebook where…
R. v Wangige (Joseph Karumba) [2020] EWCA Crim 1319 – autrefois convict preventing a second conviction on the same facts
This was a sad case involving the death of a victim in a road traffic incident in which the the Crown Prosecution Service having carefully considered the circumstances concluded that none of…