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R v KEITH BIRCHALL (1998)

PUBLISHED January 20, 1998
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Under s.35 Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 the jury should be directed that an adverse inference was only to be drawn from a defendant's failure to testify if the jury first found that the prosecution had established a case to answer.

CA (Crim Div) (Lord Bingham of Cornhill LCJ, Garland J, Rix J)

20/01/1998

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