When coroners were faced with complex cases, agreed legal directions, and possibly standard directions on the limited verdicts available, should be given to juries prior to summing-up, and the verdicts left to the jury should reflect the thrust of the evidence as a whole. * Leave to appeal to the House of Lords refused.
CA (Civ Div) (Lord Woolf MR, Hobhouse LJ, Thorpe LJ)
30/07/1998