R v Mel Broughton

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeLord Justice Thomas
Judgment Date24 March 2010
Neutral Citation[2010] EWCA Crim 549
Date24 March 2010
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Docket NumberCase No: 2009/01282/B2

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4 cases
  • R v C
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 4 November 2010
    ...from amounts below the stochastic threshold. 25 Counsel for the Crown was correct in the submission about paragraph 48 of Reed &Reed. In R v Broughton [2010] EWCA Crim 549 (a decision not available to the judge or the parties at the voir dire because of the re-trial in a case which had attr......
  • Pathmanabhan Nalliannen v PP and Other Appeals
    • Malaysia
    • Federal Court (Malaysia)
    • Invalid date
  • I R v Kuba Dlugosz
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 30 January 2013
    ...has considered Low Template DNA in several cases including R v Reed and Reed, R v Garmson [2009] EWCA Crim 2698, [2010] 1 Cr app R 23, R v Broughton [2010] EWCA Crim 549, and R v C [2010] EWCA Crim 2578. In Reed and Reed, this court referred briefly to DNA mixtures at paragraphs 50–51: "A ......
  • R v Thomas
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 25 May 2011
    ...been unnecessary for us to give detailed consideration to what was said in R v Reed and Reed or in the later case of R v Broughton [2010] EWCA Crim 549 as to the circumstances in which Low Template DNA using the LCN process can produce reliable results. The focus before us has been on wheth......
6 books & journal articles
  • ‘A new and more rigorous approach’ to expert evidence in England and Wales?
    • United Kingdom
    • International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 19-4, October 2015
    • 1 October 2015
    ...US 137 (1999).23. Draft Bill, n. 5 above.24. For more detailed discussion of this issue see Ward, 2013: 574–575.25. Above n. 15.26. [2010] EWCA Crim 549.27. [2010] EWCA Crim 1085.28. [2010] EWCA Crim 2578.Ward the Practice Direction.29It is questionable whether these judgments developed the......
  • Expert Evidence in Criminal Proceedings
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 80-5, October 2016
    • 1 October 2016
    ...at [19].28. Baron Thomas of Cwmgiedd, above, n. 10 at [19]. As regards the relevant series of cases, see R v Reed n. 20, R v Broughton[2010] EWCA Crim 549, R v Weller [2010] EWCA Crim 1085, RvC[2010] EWCA Crim 2578 and R v Dlugosz n. 14 (allDNA cases) and see, also, R v Atkins [2010] 1 Cr A......
  • Away from the Numbers: Opinion in the Court of Appeal
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 75-6, December 2011
    • 1 December 2011
    ...analyses the57 Rv Reed and Reed [2009] EWCA Crim 2698, [2010] 1 Cr App R 23 at [48].58 Ibid. at [42].59 Ibid. at [43].60 Rv Broughton [2010] EWCA Crim 549 at [30].61 Ibid. at [31].62 Ibid.63 [2010] EWCA Crim 2578.64 There may be 150 pg of DNA. The DNA may come from two or more people. Thepe......
  • The Forensic Ethics of Scientific Communication
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 87-1, February 2023
    • 1 February 2023
    ...audience relevance,are permissible.23. T Ward ‘Expert Testimony, Law and Epistemic Authority’(2017) 34 J App Phil 263.24. Broughton [2010] EWCA Crim 549, [38].25. Pabon [2018] EWCA Crim 420, [54], [58]; Liverpool Victoria Insurance Co v Khan [2019] EWCA Civ 392; [2019] 1 WLR3833.26. SA Cole......
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