Regina v Lawrence [2013] EWCA Crim 1054; [2013] WLR (D) 263
“The Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) had no power, when allowing an appeal against conviction, either to substitute a plea of guilty in respect of an offence as to which the defendant could not have pleaded or been found guilty or to order retrial.”
WLR Daily, 28th June 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The retrial of SAS sniper Danny Nightingale for illegal possession of a weapon began today, and is expected to be used by the Army as an opportunity to reform the lax policies and attitudes prevalent in its most elite regiment.”
The Independent, 1st July 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Three people have been found guilty of killing a homeless man in Southampton and burning his body in a bin.”
BBC News, 21st June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The family of an SAS sniper say they are ‘bitterly disappointed’ after a judge ruled he would face a retrial over illegally possessing a pistol and ammunition – despite a last-minute claim that prosecutors acted improperly by consulting on the case.”
The Guardian, 1st May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Lawyers for an SAS sniper are to challenge whether it is in the public interest to retry him for illegally possessing a pistol and ammunition.”
BBC News, 2nd April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two men connected to the republican movement in Northern Ireland have been ruled responsible for the Omagh bombing after a landmark civil action.”
The Independent, 20th March 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“An SAS sniper has had his convictions for illegally possessing a pistol and ammunition quashed by the court of appeal.”
The Guardian, 13th March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“It always seems much easier in theory than in practice to have a claim struck out as an abuse of process under the well known principle against re-litigation known by its leading authority of Henderson v Henderson (1843) 3 Hare 100.”
Hardwicke Chambers, 20th February 2013
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
“The retrial of Vicky Pryce, the former wife of the disgraced cabinet minister Chris Huhne, has begun, with the new jury being warned to ignore anything they already knew about the case.”
The Guardian, 25th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Britain’s jury system should not be judged by the outcome of a single, complex and highly unusual case, senior lawyers have warned following the collapse of the Vicky Pryce trial.”
The Guardian, 21st February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
” … and nine other questions posed by the jury before the judge decided to order a retrial.”
The Independent, 21st February 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The conviction of Robert and Lee Firkins for one of Cornwall’s most notorious
murders has been cast into doubt, the BBC has learned.”
BBC News, 5th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man has been convicted of supplying a gun to Mark Duggan, whose shooting by police triggered the 2011 riots across England.”
The Guardian, 31st January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Three ex-company directors accused of helping the owner of Barnsley football club make millions by concocting ‘fairytale’ financial results for software firm iSoft are facing a retrial after a jury failed to return a verdict on Wednesday.”
The Guardian, 8th August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A father has been jailed for two years for killing his daughter, who died nearly eight years after being injured as a baby.”
BBC News, 16th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Jurors failed to reach a verdict on Wednesday on whether a student who suffered a brain injury at a university fees demonstration was guilty of violent disorder.”
The Guardian, 18th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A trial at a London court collapsed last Friday after it was revealed that an interpreter employed by Applied Language Solutions had made a grave interpreting error.”
The Lawyer, 17th April 2012
Source: www.thelawyer.com
Regina v Feeley [2012] WLR (D) 83
“Where a defendant was being retried, following a successful appeal against conviction, there was no reason in principle why additional counts should not be added to the indictment.”
WLR Daily, 15th March 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“For the purposes of quashing an acquittal on the ground that there was new evidence not adduced before the court in the proceedings in which the person was acquitted, evidence which had been available to be used in those proceedings but had not been used might be new evidence for those purposes.”
WLR Daily, 29th February 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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