R v A
Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
Neutral Citation | [2008] EWCA Crim 2908 |
Year | 2008 |
Date | 2008 |
Court | Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) |
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4 cases
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Application Under The Double Jeopardy (scotland) Act 2011 By Her Majesty's Advocate Against (first) Ronnie Coulter; (second) Andrew Coulter; And (third) David Montgomery
...which quoted dicta from Ras Behari v King-Emperor (1933) 50 TLR 1 (at 2); Cart v Upper Tribunal [2011] QB 120 (at para 34); and R v A [2009] 1 WLR 1947 (at para 41), the concept of the interests of justice did include a consideration of finality. However, it also required that the public ha......
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R v G(G) and B(S)
...applicable to applications under section 76 CJA 2003, as they derive from the statute and previous authority especially R v A [2008] EWCA Crim 2908. It is not necessary to repeat them. Each case depends on its facts. The bar for the Crown is, as counsel rightly recognises, a high one. In pa......
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Michael Scott Wallace v R Ca
...was not mishandled at trial. The essence of the problem with scientific evidence in this sort of context was accurately put by Lawton LJ in R v Turner: 4 The fact that an expert witness has impressive scientific qualifications does not by that fact alone make his opinion on matters of human......
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R v B
...of justice in connected trials which are still outstanding. This judgment may be reported in official law reports, but only under the name R v B(J). 2 B(J) was acquitted of offences of great danger and violence committed in the course of a single expedition. He had been tried with two other......
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Case Commentaries
...foreseen and which are in a sense quite accidental … The bedrockprinciple of a ‘true verdict’ [articulated by Lord Judge CJ in RvA[2009]2 All ER 898 at [25]] reveals that accuracy has been reweighted in thescales of justice. Given the now statutory qualifiers to the rule againstdouble jeopa......