[2001] UKPC 35

Under the current law in St Vincent and the Grenadines a judge had no discretion to discharge a member of a serving jury unless the juror in question died, became incapable of serving or absented himself. Where it had not been suggested in evidence that the immediate cause of death had been medical treatment, negligent or otherwise, then a jury was entitled to regard a gunshot wound as the immediate cause of death.

PC (StV) (Lord Hoffmann, Sir Patrick Russell, Sir Christopher Staughton, Sir Andrew Leggatt, Sir Philip Otton)

16/07/2001