Read the full judgment text of CACC 408/2009 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 17 January 2012.
1. At the hearing on 17 January 2012 we refused the application of Mr Zervos SC, the Director of Public Prosecutions, made on the behalf of the respondent that we order the retrial of the appellant. The circumstances of the application were unusual and our refusal calls for an explanation. We said that we would give our reasons in due course. That we do now. By letter to the Registrar of the High Court, dated 16 November 2011, Mr Zervos had given notice that the respondent wished to make that ap