“Dozens of Britain’s most dangerous criminals, including murderers and terrorists, could be freed from jail after a potentially ‘disastrous’ ruling by senior judges, a leading police officer has warned.”
Daily Telegraph,
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“An ‘urgent’ change in the law is being considered to allow anonymous witness evidence to be used in court, the government said today.”
The Guardian, 21st June 2008
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R v Davis [2008] UKHL 36; [2008] WLR (D) 196
“Protective measures, ensuring the anonymity of witnesses without whose evidence the defendant could not have been convicted of murder, denied him the opportunity properly to advance his defence and accordingly rendered his trial unfair.”
WLR Daily, 19th June 2008
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“The Law Lords have ruled that a man convicted of a gun killing on the basis of evidence given by anonymous witnesses did not receive a fair trial.”
BBC News, 18th June 2008
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“High-profile prosecutions have relied on DNA to convict the guilty. Steve Wright who murdered five women in Suffolk, and Mark Dixie the killer of Sally Anne Bowman, would probably not have been convicted without DNA evidence.
But the use of forensic evidence is not always so straight-forward in proving guilt, as Clive Coleman finds out when he debates the use of forensic techniques with a panel of experts.”
BBC Law in Action, 27th May 2008
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“Media organisations will clash with Greater Manchester Police in court this week over moves to force them to hand over ‘evidence’”.
The Times, 19th May 2008
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Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
“Where the Crown chose to rely on relevant bad character evidence which it had decided not to make the subject of a criminal charge, that could not have such an adverse effect on the fairness of the proceedings that the court ought not to admit such evidence.”
The Times, 16th May 2008
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Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
“Evidence of those experienced in comparing ear-prints was capable of being relevant and admissible but such comparison would provide information which could identify the person who had left it on a surface only when sufficient minutiae could be identified and matched.”
The Times, 16th May 2008
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Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
“There was no requirement to tell a wife that she was not a compellable witness against her husband before interviewing her about a crime of which her husband was suspected.”
The Times, 14th May 2008
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R v L [2008] EWCA Crim 973; [2008] WLR (D) 142
“There was no requirement to tell a wife that she was not a compellable witness against her husband before interviewing her about a crime of which her husband was suspected.”
WLR Daily, 8th May 2008
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Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
“Evidence obtained during safety interviews held with a defendant in the absence of his solicitor was admissible at his subsequent trial subject to the ordinary principles governing a fair trial and excluding unfair evidence.”
The Times, 8th May 2008
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“The last British resident left in Guantánamo Bay is suing the UK government for refusing to produce evidence that he was a victim of extraordinary rendition and torture.”
The Guardian, 6th May 2008
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R v Ibrahim and others [2008] EWCA Crim 880; [2008] WLR (D) 127
“Evidence obtained during ‘safety’ interviews conducted with a defendant under the provisions of the Terrorism Act 2000 was admissible at his subsequent trial subject to the ordinary principles governing a fair trial, and the over-arching provisions in s 78 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984.”
WLR Daily, 25th April 2008
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MY (Turkey) v Secretary of State for Home Department
Court of Appeal
“Where an immigration judge found a witness to be reliable and accepted his evidence, it was inappropriate and an error of law for another immigration judge at a second hearing to attack the credibility of the same witness.”
The Times, 21st April 2008
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“A burglar who was convicted on the evidence of an ear-print left on a window had his conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal on Wednesday.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th April 2008
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“The case of a burglar convicted after police matched an imprint of his ear to the scene of a robbery will be heard again at the Court of Appeal.”
BBC News, 16th April 2008
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R v R (Video Recording: Admissibility) [2008] EWCA Crim 678; [2008] WLR (D) 95
“A video recording of an interview given had been was properly admitted as evidence in chief at a criminal trial pursuant to a special measures direction made under s27 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999, notwithstanding that no notification had been given by the Secretary of State under s18(2) of the Act that such measures were available.”
WLR Daily, 7th April 2008
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R v Ngyuen [2008] EWCA Crim 585; [2008] WLR (D) 94
“The mere fact that the Crown chose to rely on bad character evidence which it had decided not to make the subject of a criminal charge could not of itself have such an adverse effect on the fairness of the proceedings that the court ought not to admit that evidence.”
WLR Daily, 20th March 2008
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Betterment Properties (Weymouth) Ltd v Dorset County Council
Court of Appeal
“On an application to the High Court to remove from the register land which had been registered as a town or village green, the parties could adduce whatever evidence they wished, subject to the court’s exercise of its case management powers.”
The Times, 13th February 2008
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Betterment Properties (Weymouth) Ltd v Dorset County Council [2008] EWCA Civ 22; [2008] WLR (D) 37
“On an application to the High Court to remove land from the register of town and village greens, the parties could adduce whatever evidence they wished, subject to the court’s exercise of its case management powers.”
WLR Daily, 8th February 2008
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