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The court ordered DNA testing, including exhumation-based paternity testing and a sibling control, to determine a child’s parentage in a probate dispute.
The appeal is dismissed because the trial judge correctly accepted PW1's reliable identification evidence, the prosecution expert tests established the laser pens were Class 3B devices capable of causing eye injury, the chain of custody was sufficiently proven and the defence inability to test the exhibits did not render the trial unfair; on that basis the prosecution proved beyond reasonable doubt both common assault and possession of offensive weapons with intent.
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The trial judge failed to adequately direct the jury on the legal and factual interplay between alleged coercion, maintenance of the right to silence and the limited admissibility of delay‑in‑complaint evidence (availment use), and wrongly characterised the absence of fingerprint evidence as simply 'neutral' despite evidence that prints had been sought and none found; those errors were material and deprived the jury of proper direction, requiring quashing of the convictions and remittal for retrial.
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The Court of Appeal dismissed the murder appeal, upholding the trial judge’s summing-up, handling of expert evidence, and the jury’s verdicts.
The application for leave was refused because the trial judge reasonably drew, from fingerprints on some packets combined with pervasive circumstantial evidence (bar access, concealment method, packaging inconsistency with customer involvement, lack of credible innocent explanation), the only proper inference that the appellant handled and had knowledge/control of the consignment; the absence of prints elsewhere was neutral and did not undermine that conclusion.
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The Court of Appeal dismissed a drug-trafficking conviction appeal, finding no material error in the summing-up, no basis for fresh evidence, and no miscarriage of justice.
Court of Appeal granted leave to appeal conviction in a drug trafficking case, finding an arguable misdirection about the absence of fingerprint and DNA evidence.
Renewed leave to appeal against conviction dismissed. The court held missing fingerprint or DNA evidence was a neutral factor and upheld the trial judge’s credibility findings.
The court rejected an objection to expert evidence on explosives, holding that the opinions were within the experts’ forensic expertise and could touch the ultimate issue.
The Court of Appeal dismissed a burglary conviction appeal, holding that recalling the DNA expert was proper and that indirect-transfer theories were speculative.
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