Practice and Procedure

R v SHANE ADAM HAMPSON (2012)

PUBLISHED June 26, 2012
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[2012] EWCA Crim 1807

The power of the courts in criminal cases to receive evidence other than by a person being present to give oral evidence was regulated by statute and there was no power for a judge to permit evidence to be given by telephone, even with the parties' consent.

CA (Crim Div) (Sir John Thomas (President QBD) , Collins J, Singh J)

26/06/2012

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