Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2007] All ER (D) 443 (May)
Neutral Citation: [2007] EWCA Crim 1238
Court: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division
Judge:

Maurice Kay LJ, McCombe and Swift JJ
Representation Alan Newman QC and Thomas Buxton (assigned by the Registrar of Criminal Appeals) for the first defendant.
  Guy Gozem QC and Bruce Stuart (assigned by the Registrar of Criminal Appeals) for the second defendant.
  Stephen Solley QC and Neil Hawes (assigned by the Registrar of Criminal Appeals) for the third defendant.
  James Pavry, Robert-Jan Temmink and Rupert Jones (instructed by the Crown Prosecution Service) for the Crown.
Judgment Dates: 25 May 2007

Catchwords

Criminal law - Trial - Summing up - Defendants charged with conspiracy to steal and conspiracy to falsify documents made for an accounting purpose - Whether summing up assisting jury to requisite level - Whether case properly left to jury - Whether convictions safe.

The Case

Criminal law Trial. In the instant case, where the defendants had been convicted of offences of conspiracy to steal and conspiracy to falsify documents made for an accounting purpose, the case was not properly left to the jury because the summing up did not assist them to the minimum level that fairness required. Accordingly, the convictions were unsafe and would be quashed.

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