Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2006] All ER (D) 339 (Dec)
Neutral Citation: [2006] EWCA Crim 2754
Court: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division
Judge:

Moses LJ, McCombe J and Judge Stephens QC
Representation Mark Barlow (instructed by Jordans Solicitors) for the first defendant.
  John Burrow and Patrick Andrews, solicitor advocate, (instructed by Andrews Angel Solicitors) for the second defendant.
  John Gibson (instructed by Keith Levin & Co) for the third defendant.
  Stephen Spence (instructed by the Crown Prosecution Service) for the Crown.
Judgment Dates: 21 December 2006

Catchwords

Criminal law - Trial - Witnesses - Historic allegations - Delay - Special consideration of evidence where delay - Judge's consideration of discrepancies in evidence - Summing up of evidence - Suggested approach where multiple witnesses.

The Case

Guidance was given as to the difficulties which arose where a trial concerned events that allegedly occurred a long time ago and as to the exercise to be taken by the judge in scrutinising the evidence. Suggestions were made as to the appropriate approach to be taken to reviewing evidence on a submission of no case to answer and as to the appropriate exercise to be undertaken before a judge summed the evidence up to the jury.

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