[2006] UKPC 56

A hearing of an appeal against sentence had not been properly and fairly disposed of in the offender's absence and it had not been open to the Court of Appeal on the evidence to conclude that the offender had known of the hearing date and deliberately absented himself or that he had deliberately made it impossible to notify him in advance.

PC (Bah) (Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, Baroness Hale of Richmond, Lord Carswell, Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood)

30/11/2006