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IN THE MATTER OF APPLICATIONS FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW BY JOSEPH FITZPATRICK AND TERENCE SHIELS (2013)

PUBLISHED October 22, 2013
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[2013] NIQB 105

A change in legal standards subsequent to the trial and conviction of a person whose conviction had been in accordance with the law at the time of trial could not be regarded as the discovery of a new or newly discovered fact" demonstrating that a miscarriage of justice had occurred for the purposes of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 s.133.

CA (NI) (Morgan LCJ, Girvan LJ, Coghlin LJ)

22/10/2013

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