Read the full judgment text of FAMC 000039/2004 on BabelCite. This FAMC judgment was delivered on 4 November 2004.
1. A judge’s summing-up, as its name indicates, involves not only directions to the jury on the relevant law but also the marshalling of the salient facts. Not every error on the part of a judge when addressing the facts in the course of a summing-up will provide a ground for quashing a conviction. It depends on the circumstances. The relevant circumstances in the present case may be gathered from paragraphs 16 and 17 of the Court of Appeal’s judgment. It is reasonably arguable that the judg