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Failure to obtain the Attorney General’s consent CW and MM were charged, with other individuals, on counts 1 and 2 of an indictment containing 8 counts. Counts 1 and 2 were conspiracies to supply…
Where accessories to prohibited weapons have a ‘mixed use,’ in that they can be used with prohibited or non-prohibited weapons, then whether or not they are intended to be used with a prohibited weapon in…
The disclosure of a defendant’s solicitor’s police station notes waived privilege for the whole of the document. The appellant, and her five other co-accused, had been indicted for the murder, and related offences, against…
A five-judge court reviews previous authorities on good character, rejecting some as wrong, and re-states the key principles. A trial judge is not obliged to give a good character direction where a defendant is of…
For the purposes of unlawful act manslaughter, an objective test is applied in order to determine whether an unlawful act was dangerous On the 10th of June 2013, the appellants JF, (a 14 year…
It is not a matter for the court to decide whether photographs are indecent as a matter of law; as long as they are deemed capable of being so, the question of indecency should be…
A case dealing with when a judge should leave the partial defence of loss of self-control to a jury in a murder Several appeals were heard together. This summary focuses on the issue of…
The jury is entitled to revisit the basis of plea of a previous conviction where it is adduced as bad character. On the 31st of March 2014, Mr Andrew Wynes was convicted of six…
Personality disorders, which may not be significant in themselves in reducing culpability, may nevertheless have an impact on sentence in explaining and therefore reducing the impact of other aggravating features. Mr De Silva was…
A jury should be left to consider alternative verdicts where there is evidence to support it, even if neither prosecution or defence ask the jury to consider it. On the 8th November 2013, Shenae…
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