R v Robert David Ekaireb
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judge | Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, CJ |
| Judgment Date | 16 December 2015 |
| Neutral Citation | [2015] EWCA Crim 1936 |
| Docket Number | Case No: 2014/00467/C4 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) |
| Date | 16 December 2015 |
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7 cases
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The People (at the suit of the DPP) v Brian Shaughnessey
...regarded as a proper ground for appeal.” An ill-judged attempt at humour in closing a criminal case is not incompetence; R v Ekaireb [2015] EWCA Crim 1936. More recently, the emphasis has not been on a particular standard of failure, effectively requiring a catastrophic collapse, but rathe......
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R Robert David Ekaireb v Criminal Cases Review Commission
...of his closing speech, was incompetent to a degree that rendered the conviction unsafe. On 16 December 2015, the appeal was refused ( [2015] EWCA Crim 1936). Although the court considered that some of the criticism of Counsel was well-founded, on the entirety of the evidence, it concluded ......
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Lyndsey Lee Anne Harper v The Queen
...of appeal: the conviction must be unsafe as a consequence: see R v Day [2003] EWCA Crim 1060 at [15] and followed in R v Ekaireb [2015] EWCA Crim 1936. In our judgment, whatever concession leading counsel at the trial might now make, the decision not to challenge the admissibility of Miss......
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R v Caroline Ann Foxley
...the trial process unfair and the conviction unsafe. A recent illustration of the application of the relevant principle can be found in R v Ekaireb [2015] EWCA Crim 1936. That was a case which focussed on criticisms of leading counsel's closing speech at the end of a murder trial. A constitu......
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