Where a defendant had previous cautions, a judge was not obliged to give a good character direction. The court could distinguish between the two halves of the standard direction, and to include the credibility part of the direction, but to omit the propensity part of the direction.
Citations:
Gazette 27-Jan-2000, Times 05-Jan-2000
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – GAI v Regina CACD 5-Oct-2012
The defendant’s appeal based on the absence of a good character direction had succeeded. The court now gave its reasons.
Held: After reviewing the authorities, the appeal succeeded: ‘the learned judge was wrong to find that the fact that . .
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Criminal Practice
Updated: 25 October 2022; Ref: scu.85394