The applicant appeal from conviction for robbery on the ground that the summing-up was unstructured, inadequate and defective in some material particulars including the elements of robbery and joint enterprise.
Held: ‘When all of these errors are put together, errors in directing the jury on the law, errors in summing-up the evidence before the jury, and really a total failure to bring both law and evidence to bear on the critical issue of the case, and when one adds to that complete opacity as to exactly how the Crown were putting their case of joint enterprise, we consider that this conviction is unsafe.’
Citations:
[2009] EWCA Crim 1618
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Crime
Updated: 18 June 2022; Ref: scu.377740