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R v BARRY DAVID WHELAN (2012)

PUBLISHED August 3, 2012
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[2012] EWCA Crim 2116

A judge had erred in not giving maximum credit for a defendant's guilty plea to reckless arson entered only after receipt of a psychiatric report that said he was fit to plead. Whilst not the first hearing, it had been the first reasonable opportunity for a plea to be entered in the knowledge that he was fit to do so.

CA (Crim Div) (Gross LJ, Griffith Williams J, Sweeney J)

03/08/2012

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