Read the full judgment text of DCCC 661/2006 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 12 July 2011.
1. This marathon trial commenced in early April 2008. It lasted for more than 120 days extending over 38 months. The defendants were convicted after such a lengthy trial. As far as I am aware of, this case has a number of unusual features. It is one of the trials lasting for such a long period of time. It involved several senior counsel and London silk at different stages of the proceedings. It involved at least two judicial reviews during the proceedings and the defendants applied for Let