‘Potential jurors in the Becky Watts murder trial have been warned they could face imprisonment if they research the case or discuss it with other people.’
The Guardian, 6th October 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘You’re called up for jury duty. You’re excited, nervous, curious. You wonder what case you might get, if there will be a celebrity involved. You probably don’t consider whether you’ll end up in prison at the end of your service.’
Park Square Barristers, 4th October 2015
Source: www.parksquarebarristers.co.uk
‘The UK criminal justice system needs to do more with less. Sir Brian Leveson’s recommendations would introduce some sensible flexibility to it.’
The Guardian, 18th June 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The family of a man jailed for murdering his ex-wife have taken out a newspaper advert in an attempt to trace the jurors involved in his trial, prompting a police investigation.’
BBC News, 20th May 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A specially constituted fivemember Court of Appeal handed down judgment last week in the case of R v Hunter & Others [2015] EWCA Crim 631. The court heard a number of appeals concerning the circumstances in which a good character direction should be given and the extent of such a direction.’
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Zenith Chambers, 20th April 2015
Source: www.zenithchambers.co.uk
‘The jury in the latest trial of journalists accused of illegally paying public officials has been told the judge will accept majority verdicts.’
BBC News, 16th April 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘An ex-News of the World reporter who was found guilty of paying a prison officer for information has had their conviction quashed.’
BBC News, 27th March 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A public body that reviews miscarriages of justice should be “bolder” and refer more cases to the Court of Appeal, a group of MPs has said.’
BBC News, 25th March 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Regina v Akhtar (Itzaz) [2015] EWCA Crim 176; [2015] WLR (D) 91
‘Where a jury brought in a guilty verdict on one count but were unable to agree on another count, a retrial on that other count was not an abuse of process unless the two counts were true alternatives in that they were mutually exclusive alternatives.’
WLR Daily, 26th February 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina v Gurpinar; Regina v Kojo-Smith and another [2015] EWCA Crim 178; [2015] WLR (D) 80
Where a defendant was charged with murder and the issue arose as to whether the partial defence of loss of self-control should be left to the jury the trial judge had to undertake a much more rigorous evaluation of the evidence before that defence could be left to the jury than had been required under the former law of provocation.
WLR Daily, 20th February 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘The jury in a trial at the Old Bailey have been ordered not to watch a BBC documentary on the royal family’s relations with the media amid concerns it could prejudice a fair trial of the Sun’s royal editor.’
The Guardian, 19th February 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Paul Moffitt is the second juror to cast doubt on the 2008 conviction of the nurse Colin Norris for killing four elderly hospital patients.’
Daily Telegraph, 28th January 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Sir Brian Leveson, The President of the Queen’s Bench Division publishes his review into efficiency in criminal proceedings today (Friday) with a wide ranging set of recommendations. He was asked by the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas to find ways to make criminal justice more efficient and streamlined.’
Judiciary of England and Wales, 23rd January 2015
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
‘At the end of the investigation into the disappearance and death of Alice Gross, the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) submitted a report to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). That report proposed that Arnis Zalkalns was responsible for her abduction and murder.’
Corwn Prosecution Service, 27th January 2015
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
‘A senior judge has set out plans to “streamline” the “inefficient, time consuming and… very expensive” justice system in England and Wales.’
BBC News, 23rd January 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A juror in the trial of four Sun journalists has been discharged from his duties because of the “pressure and stress” of deliberations.’
The Guardian, 21st January 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘An Old Bailey judge refused to allow a jury to hear about dozens of “grossly offensive and undoubtedly racist” text messages on the phones of two of the G4S security guards acquitted of killing Jimmy Mubenga because they did not have “any real relevance” to the trial.’
The Guardian, 17th December 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The National Crime Agency has been labelled “incompetent” by an Old Bailey judge after a series of blunders led to the collapse of a £5m trial.’
The Guardian, 2nd December 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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