R v A

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Neutral Citation[2008] EWCA Crim 2908
Year2008
Date2008
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
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4 cases
  • Application Under The Double Jeopardy (scotland) Act 2011 By Her Majesty's Advocate Against (first) Ronnie Coulter; (second) Andrew Coulter; And (third) David Montgomery
    • United Kingdom
    • High Court of Justiciary
    • 28 Noviembre 2014
    ...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......
  • R v G(G) and B(S)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 12 Junio 2009
    ...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......
  • Michael Scott Wallace v R Ca
    • New Zealand
    • Court of Appeal
    • 3 Marzo 2010
    ...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......
  • R v B
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 14 Mayo 2009
    ...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......
1 books & journal articles
  • Case Commentaries
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 14-1, January 2010
    • 1 Enero 2010
    ...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......

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