Practice and Procedure

R V (1) MARK FRANK BRIAN FRANCOM (2) CLAIRE LOUISE LATIF (3) MEINA LATIF (4) CHRISTOPHER JOHN BEVIS (5) ANN NOLENE HARKER (2000)

PUBLISHED July 31, 2000
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Where the trial judge failed to direct the jury that no adverse inference should be drawn from the appellants' silence in interview, the misdirection should be taken in context and the safety of the conviction should be considered in the same way the European Court of Human Rights considered fairness.

CA (Crim Div) (Lord Woolf of Barnes LCJ, Rougier J, Bell J)

31/07/2000

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