R v Peter Weller

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeLORD JUSTICE THOMAS
Judgment Date29 June 2010
Neutral Citation[2010] EWCA Crim 1657,[2010] EWCA Crim 1085
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Docket NumberNo: 200804666/B3,No: 2008/4666/B3
Date29 June 2010

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3 cases
  • I R v Kuba Dlugosz
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 30 January 2013
    ...opinion, provided there is some other sufficiently reliable basis for its admission. As is clear from Reed and Reed and R v Weller [2010] EWCA Crim 1085, evaluative opinions were given in relation to the ways in which DNA could be transferred without there being any statistical database. We......
  • R v Thomas
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 25 May 2011
    ...simulation experiments mentioned in the FSS manual, and to the defence objection to reliance on that material. He cited R v Weller [2010] EWCA Crim 1085, in which it was held that a court determining whether there was a sufficiently reliable scientific basis for expert evidence to be given ......
  • Richmond London Borough Council v B
    • United Kingdom
    • Family Division
    • 12 November 2010
    ...their own experience and unpublished material to support their opinions. It is well established that they can: see, for example, R v Weller [2010] EWCA Crim 1085. However, the basis for the asserted opinion must be made sufficiently clear for its reliability to be properly assessed. During ......
7 books & journal articles
  • ‘A new and more rigorous approach’ to expert evidence in England and Wales?
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 19-4, October 2015
    • 1 October 2015
    ...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 law as significantly as......
  • Legal versus non-legal approaches to forensic science evidence
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 20-1, January 2016
    • 1 January 2016
    ...tend to be scientifically-predicated. See e.g. R v Dlugosz [2013] EWCA Crim 2; R v Reed [2009]EWCA Crim 2698; and R v Weller [2010] EWCA Crim 1085. 8. There are two reported references to the NRC report in England and Wales: Otway v Regina [2011] EWCA Crim 3 and R Ferdinand [2014] EWCA Crim......
  • Expert Evidence in Criminal Proceedings
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 80-5, October 2016
    • 1 October 2016
    ...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 App R 8 (facial mapping) and RvT[2011] ......
  • Away from the Numbers: Opinion in the Court of Appeal
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 75-6, December 2011
    • 1 December 2011
    ...[2010] EWCA Crim 2439, [2011] 1 Cr App R 9.2RvReed and Reed [2009] EWCA Crim 2698, [2010] 1 Cr App R 23 at [111]; RvWeller [2010] EWCA Crim 1085 at [34] [37]; RvBroughton [2010] EWCA Crim549 at [36]–[37]; Rv T [2010] EWCA Crim 2439, [2011] 1 Cr App R 9 at [86].3 Law Commission, The Admissib......
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