Wortley, Natalie (2018) Comment: R v Welland [2018] EWCA Crim 2036. Criminal Law Week (39). ISSN 1368-5589
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Abstract
Comment on the trial judge’s decision to direct the jury not to draw adverse inferences from a defendant’s failure to testify, rather than adjourning to obtain medical evidence, where the defendant had experienced seizures in court and therefore could not be called to give evidence.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Criminal Law, Criminal evidence, Adverse inferences, Right to silence |
| Subjects: | M900 Other in Law |
| Department: | Faculties > Business and Law > Northumbria Law School |
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| Depositing User: | Paul Burns |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Mar 2019 15:48 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Oct 2019 21:33 |
| URI: | http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/38426 |
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