Discusses the interplay between the bad character provisions in Part 11 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 and s.74(3) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, which creates a presumption that a person convicted of an offence in the UK or an EU member state committed that offence
[Extract] In December 2009, two police officers issued a directive to Mr Joshua McMillan to leave "t...
Comment on the trial judge’s decision to direct the jury not to draw adverse inferences from a defen...
Discusses difficulties that arose in attempting to clarify expert DNA evidence for a jury in retirem...
Discusses the circumstances in which deception will negate consent to sexual activity under the Sexu...
Discusses the meaning of "sexual behaviour" for the purposes of s.41 of the Youth Justice and Crimin...
Discusses issues of capacity and cross-examination in sexual offence cases involving complainants wh...
Highlights the risks and limitations of psychiatric opinion evidence and nomenclature in addressing ...
Discusses the circumstances in which a previous consistent statement may be admitted to rebut a sugg...
Highlights the Court of Appeal's decision to uphold a ruling that there was no case to answer where ...
Discusses the Divisional Court's approach to aggregating values for the purpose of the low-value sho...
Discusses the stages at which the strength of the prosecution case is relevant to the question of wh...
Discusses the difficulties that arise when the court and advocates fail to appreciate the implicatio...
Discusses whether evidence that DNA matching that of the defendant was found on a moveable object is...
Discusses the role of expert evidence where a sentencing guideline requires a judge to assess the de...
Discusses the concept of intention in relation to offences committed by direct action protestors
[Extract] In December 2009, two police officers issued a directive to Mr Joshua McMillan to leave "t...
Comment on the trial judge’s decision to direct the jury not to draw adverse inferences from a defen...
Discusses difficulties that arose in attempting to clarify expert DNA evidence for a jury in retirem...
Discusses the circumstances in which deception will negate consent to sexual activity under the Sexu...
Discusses the meaning of "sexual behaviour" for the purposes of s.41 of the Youth Justice and Crimin...
Discusses issues of capacity and cross-examination in sexual offence cases involving complainants wh...
Highlights the risks and limitations of psychiatric opinion evidence and nomenclature in addressing ...
Discusses the circumstances in which a previous consistent statement may be admitted to rebut a sugg...
Highlights the Court of Appeal's decision to uphold a ruling that there was no case to answer where ...
Discusses the Divisional Court's approach to aggregating values for the purpose of the low-value sho...
Discusses the stages at which the strength of the prosecution case is relevant to the question of wh...
Discusses the difficulties that arise when the court and advocates fail to appreciate the implicatio...
Discusses whether evidence that DNA matching that of the defendant was found on a moveable object is...
Discusses the role of expert evidence where a sentencing guideline requires a judge to assess the de...
Discusses the concept of intention in relation to offences committed by direct action protestors
[Extract] In December 2009, two police officers issued a directive to Mr Joshua McMillan to leave "t...
Comment on the trial judge’s decision to direct the jury not to draw adverse inferences from a defen...
Discusses difficulties that arose in attempting to clarify expert DNA evidence for a jury in retirem...