The judge is to give a ‘Lucas’ direction, if the fact of a defendant’s lie is to be relied upon by the prosecution to challenge the veracity of other evidence given by the defendant.
Citations:
Gazette 13-Oct-1993, Independent 27-Aug-1993, Times 11-Aug-1993, [1993] 98 Cr App R 11
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Philip Joshua Rahming v The Queen PC 20-May-2002
(Bahamas) The case was an appeal against a conviction for murder on the basis of the incorrect direction from the judge as to manslaughter and murder, and the failure to give a lies direction.
Held: The failure to bring the defendant before a . .
Cited – Regina v Burge and Pegg CACD 1996
The court considered the circumstances under which the defendant had lied, and Lucas direction was to be given: ‘As there seems to be at the moment a tendency in one appeal after another to assert that there has been no direction, or an inadequate . .
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Criminal Practice
Updated: 25 October 2022; Ref: scu.86710