Where there was a cut-throat defence and similar questions arose in respect of each defendant, it was desirable to assist the jury by relating those questions specifically to the case advanced by each defendant. However, where the ingredients of the defence and matters on which the jury had to be satisfied were made clear, and the evidence of each defendant was fully re-canvassed before the jury, a failure to relate the questions specifically to each defendant would not necessarily render a conviction unsafe.

CA (Crim Div) (Potter LJ, Poole J, Sir Brian Smedley)

19/12/2000