[2007] EWCA Crim 2

A conviction was unsafe where, in the course of defence counsel's closing speech and in the presence of the jury, the judge had unfairly indicated that he would direct the jury not to consider evidence crucial to the defence, and his summing up had done nothing to dispel the taint of those remarks.

CA (Crim Div) (Law LJ, Penry-Davey J, Recorder of Chester)

26/01/2007