R v Michael Reid

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeMR JUSTICE OPENSHAW
Judgment Date27 July 2007
Neutral Citation[2007] EWCA Crim 2067
Date27 July 2007
Docket NumberNo: 200605795/D3
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)

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4 cases
  • Horace Kirby v R
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 16 March 2012
    ...as to whether or not a good character direction should be given. He relied, in support of his submissions, on the authority of Michael Reid v R SCCA No 113/2007 (delivered 3 April 2009). 6 In response, Mr Harrison submitted on behalf of the Crown, that a trial judge does have a discretion, ......
  • Ronald Webley Rohan Meikle v R
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 26 April 2013
    ...by a trial judge in respect of this issue have had much attention in recent times. Morrison JA considered them fully in the cases of Michael Reid v R SCCA No 113/2007 (delivered 3 April 2009) and Golding and Lowe v R SCCA Nos 4 and 7/2004 (delivered 18 December 2009). Those cases do not, ho......
  • Michael Holness v R
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 28 September 2012
    ... ... 26 The issue of a good character direction has been the subject of several recent decisions of this court. Among them areMichael Reid v R SCCA No 113/2007 - (delivered 3 April 2009) and Rohan Brown et al v R [2010] JMCA Crim 54. The principles that have been affirmed in these decisions include that which states that the failure to give the direction in a case in which the defendant is so entitled will not automatically result in ... ...
  • Brown (Rohan) and Valentine Bowes v R
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 30 July 2010
    ...offence, has, in recent times, been the subject of a number of eminent judgments. Not the least of those is that delivered in Michael Reid v R SCCA No. 113/2007 (delivered 3 April 2009). The salient principles were set out by Morrison JA, who handed down the judgment of this court. Those pr......

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