R v FNC
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 2015 |
| Neutral Citation | [2015] EWCA Crim 1732 |
| Date | 2015 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) |
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11 cases
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DPP v Wilson
...reasonable doubt. An analysis of this type is to be found in the unreported UK Court of Appeal case of R. v. Lashley in a passage cited in R. v. FNC [2016] 1 Cr. App. R. 12. 5.30 In passing it does require to be said that some of the earlier decisions from other common law countries, such ......
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R. v. Hall, 2018 MBCA 122
...a case for the accused to answer or risk conviction (see R v Kociuk (RJ), 2011 MBCA 85 at paras 54-58, aff’d 2012 SCC 15; R v FNC, [2015] EWCA Crim 1732 (BAILII) at para 27; and Tsekiri at para 14). [170] The situation here is different; the DNA evidence was found on readily moveable articl......
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Neville Barnes v R
...the disapproval of the cases of R v Ogden [2013] EWCA Crim 1294, and R v Grant [2008] EWCA Crim 1890, in the later cases of R v FNC [2015] EWCA Crim 1732, and R v Tsekiri [2017] EWCA Crim 40, would now allow a conviction to soundly stand exclusively on DNA evidence. On that premise, cou......
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R v Ben Belhaj-Farhat
...to DNA evidence and the extent to which such evidence of itself can provide a sufficient basis for a jury to convict: see R v FNC [ [2015] EWCA Crim 1732]; [2016] 1 Cr App R 13, at paragraphs 19 to 26. It is not necessary for that review to be repeated here. The conclusion of the court wa......
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6 books & journal articles
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Explaining and trusting expert evidence: What is a ‘sufficiently reliable scientific basis’?
...[2009] EWCA Crim 2553.39. [2018] EWCA Crim 338.40. Condron vUK (2001) 31 EHRR 1 at [56].41. RvGalbraith [1981] 1 WLR 1809.42. [2015] EWCA Crim 1732, [2016] 1 WLR 980 - a judgment marred by its reliance (at [31-2]) on Hookway and Weighman,above nn. 29-30.43. The issue was also discussed at l......
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To the exclusion of all others? DNA profile and transfer mechanics—R v Jones (William Francis) [2020] EWCA Crim 1021 (03 Aug 2020)
...distinguishbetween direct and indirect deposit of DNA. The case must be distinguished from both Tsekiri ([2017]EWCA Crim 40) and FNC ([2015] EWCA Crim 1732), for, as a point of general principle, direct transferis more likely than indirect transfer, qualified by the observation that no conc......
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Accusation as Proof: Uncorroborated Historic Sexual Abuse Allegations
...recognition camera, then all that isweighted with all the other facts.71. Cf. the discussion in R v Adams [1996] 2 Cr App R 467; R v FNC [2016] 1 WLR 980; U.S. v Hannigan (1994) 27 F.3d 890. SeeFitzgerald v The Queen (2014) 88 ALJR 779.72. Glanville Williams, The Proof of Guilt (Stevens & S......
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DNA Evidence Alone as a Case to Answer
...the recording to the person they have heardgive evidence in the witness box.Stephen ColmanDNA Evidence Alone as a Case to AnswerRvFNC [2015] EWCA Crim 1732KeywordsDNA, adverse inferences, no case to answerC was charged with a sexual offence committed in 2003, to which he was linked by a DNA......
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