| Source: | All England Reporter |
| Publisher Citation: | [2011] All ER (D) 118 (Mar) |
| Court: | Courts Martial Appeal Court |
| Judge: | Leveson LJ, Cox and Supperstone JJ (judgment delivered extempore) |
| Representation | James Doyle (assigned by the Registrar of Courts-Martial Appeals) for the defendant. |
| James Johnston (instructed by the Army Prosecuting Authority) for the prosecution. | |
| Judgment Dates: | 10 March 2011 |
Catchwords
Court-martial - Board - Bias - Defendant being national of Fiji and corporal in British army - Defendant being charged with sexual offences - Defendant being tried before Courts-Martial Court - Member of board including another Fijian national known to defendant - Defendant convicted - Whether apparent bias - Whether conviction rendered unsafe.
The Case
Court-martial Board. The Courts-Martial Appeal Court held that the fact that the defendant corporal, a Fijian national, had been tried by a board that included a fellow Fijian, a major in the British army, had not rendered the trial unsafe.
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