R v Watts (James)
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judge | Mr Justice Mackay |
| Judgment Date | 23 July 2010 |
| Neutral Citation | [2010] EWCA Crim 1824 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) |
| Date | 23 July 2010 |
| Docket Number | Case No: 200905989B3 |
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3 cases
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Gregory August and Alwin Babb v The Queen
...2912 at [513].] neither is it an appellate Court's function to “review the decisions of juries in order to substitute its own view”. [ R v. Watts [2010] E.W.C.A. Crim. 1824 at [54].] Although not the case here, the prohibition against intruding into the domain of the jury holds true “even i......
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Gregory August v The Queen
...Edwards [2012] EWCA Crim 5 at [39]: “We have well in mind the need not to substitute our own view of the evidence for that of the jury”. 14R v Watts [2010] EWCA Crim 1824 at 15 SCCA No. 113/07 (3 April 2009). 16 [2008] UKPC (28 July 2008) . 17 [2012] JMCA Crim 10 . 18 [2014] JMCA Crim 19. ......
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R v FJ
...K was competent to give evidence. Mr Harrison, who appears on behalf of the appellant, accepted that in the light of authorities such as R v Watts [2010] EWCA Crim 1824 and R v Barker [2010] EWCA Crim 4, he could not properly pursue that ground. Those cases affirm that questions of competen......
2 books & journal articles
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Balancing fairness to victims, society and defendants in the cross-examination of vulnerable witnesses: an impossible triangulation?
...2010) [42] (Lord Judge CJ for Lord Judge CJ, Hallett LJ and Macur J); R v Edwards [2011] EWCA Crim 3028 (16 November 2011); R v Watts [2010] EWCA Crim 1824 (23 July 2010) [17] (Mackay J for Lord CJ, Rafferty J and Mackay (136) See, eg, Al-Khawaja v United Kingdom (2012) 54 EHRR 23, [142]-[1......
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The Compellability Rule in England and Wales: Support for the Spouse of the Defendant
...Witnesses in theCriminal and Family Justice Systems’ [2011] Crim LR 925 at 929–31. The use ofintermediaries was seen in R v Watts [2010] EWCA Crim 1824. 28 P. Cooper, Tell Me What’s Happening 2: Registered Intermediary Survey 2010 (City School: 2010), 12, available at http://www.city.ac.uk/......