Director of Public Prosecutions of the British Virgin Islands v Penn – WLR Daily

Posted May 13th, 2008 in criminal procedure, juries, law reports by sally

Director of Public Prosecutions of the British Virgin Islands v Penn [2008] UKPC 29; [2008] WLR (D) 149

“Where a defendant had been convicted by a jury which had been empanelled from an array which did not meet the requirements laid down by statute his conviction should not be overturned and a retrial ordered unless the statutory language and intent so required or there was reason to think his trial had been unfair.”

WLR Daily 12th May 2008

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