A challenge to the UK Miscarriage of Justice Compensation Scheme is now underway in the European Court of Human Rights following the refusal to declare the Governments test for compensation as incompatible…
News
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 inolving an allegation of abuse which occured in 1996 but was not reported until 2018 . The circumstances of the reporting arose following a search of facebook…
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…
R v Westbrook;R v Richardson [2020] EWCA Crim 1243 – Procedural Errors do not render a Judges Decision pronounced in open court invalid
Various procedural erros and delays had occured in the production of court orders in confiscation proceedings , this included an error with regard ot what was pronounced in open Court but the…
R v Tierney-Campbell [2020] EWCA Crim 1194 – Setting Aside A Guilty Plea
This applicaiton to appeal presented the opportunity for the Court of Appeal to set out succictly the Courts approach to when it could act over an applicaiton to set aside a guilty…
Amere Singh Dhaliwal, Irfan Ahmed, Mohammed Kammer, Zahid Hassan, Mohammed Riswan Aslam, Abdul Rehman, Raj Singh Barsran, Nahman Mohammed v The Queen [2020] EWCA Crim 843 – Jury conduct internet/messaging
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…
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 and the Jury Impact Test
A CCRC Referral failed 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…