| Source: | All England Reporter |
| Publisher Citation: | [2001] All ER (D) 114 (Sep) |
| Neutral Citation: | [2001] EWCA Crim 2051 |
| Court: | Court of Appeal, Criminal Division |
| Judge: | Kennedy LJ, Morland and Silber JJ |
| Representation | William Coker QC and Mathew Jowitt (assigned by the Registrar of Criminal Appeals) for the appellant. |
| Timothy Barnes QC (instructed by the Crown Prosecution Service) for the Crown. | |
| Judgment Dates: | 28 September 2001 |
Catchwords
Criminal law - Trial - Direction to jury - Lies - Defendant's lies - Direction on significance on lies|| Defendant convicted of murder - Whether judge failing to direct jury adequately on evidential effect of lies to question of provocation and intention.
The Case
A defendant's conviction for murder was substituted by one of manslaughter in circumstances in which the judge's directions to the jury on the issue of lies had not been appropriate.
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