The court was asked whether the Recorder was right to continue the appellant’s trial in circumstances where the appellant had deliberately and repeatedly rendered himself incapable of giving evidence or of taking a meaningful part in his trial through the voluntary ingestion of drugs.
Nurnett LJ, Blake J, Batty QC HHJ Rec York
[2016] EWCA Crim 9
Bailii
England and Wales
Criminal Practice
Updated: 10 January 2022; Ref: scu.560183