Regina v Dobson – WLR Daily

Posted May 20th, 2011 in evidence, law reports, murder, retrials by tracey

Regina v Dobson [2011] EWCA Crim 1256;  [2011] WLR (D)  167

“Where the Court of Appeal was considering, for the purposes of quashing an acquittal, whether there was new and compelling evidence, provided the new evidence was reliable, substantial and appeared to be highly probative it would be compelling for the purposes of section 78 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003: otherwise it would not.”

WLR Daily, 18th May 2011

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