Where counsel had genuinely omitted to request a good character direction from the judge, and the defendant was entitled to one and did not receive it, the defendant should be acquitted on appeal. It will rarely be possible for a court of appeal to say with safety that the direction would not have made a difference.
Citations:
Times 14-May-1999, [1999] EWCA Crim 930
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Teeluck and John v The State PC 23-Mar-2005
(Trinidad and Tobago) The defendant appealed against his conviction saying that his defence had been incompetent in having failed to require the judge to give a good character direction to the jury.
Held: The appeal was allowed. Recent cases . .
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Criminal Practice
Updated: 14 September 2022; Ref: scu.157330