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Criminal-law [2025] JCA 026

Pearce v AG (Court of Appeal : Appeal

Pearce v AG (Court of Appeal : Appeal (Criminal)) [2025] JCA 026 (22 January 2025)

The Court of Appeal dismissed David Pearce’s criminal appeal, rejecting grounds based on juror bias, character evidence, fresh expert evidence, and late-disclosed evidence.

  • Rape
  • Assault
  • Jury-bias
  • Character-evidence
  • Disclosure
  • Admission-of-evidence
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Criminal-law [2022] JCA 131

Warn v AG

Warn v AG [2022] JCA 131 (20 June 2022)

The Court of Appeal upheld Jamie Lee Warn’s murder conviction, finding the circumstantial evidence and the appellant’s lies sufficient and rejecting claims of legal error or miscarriage of justice.

  • Murder
  • Circumstantial-evidence
  • Appeal-against-conviction
  • Jury-directions
  • Miscarriage-of-justice
  • Criminal-law
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Criminal-law [2021] JCA 282

Arron Le Gros v M Attorney General

Arron Le Gros v M Attorney General [2021] JCA 282 (17 November 2021)

The Court of Appeal dismissed a conviction appeal, holding that counsel’s omissions did not cause a miscarriage of justice and that the appellant was properly advised.

  • Miscarriage-of-justice
  • Competence-of-counsel
  • Self-defence
  • Drug-offences
  • Criminal-appeal
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Criminal-law [2020] JRC 128

Khan v AG

Khan v AG [2020] JRC 128 (02 July 2020)

Appeal against conviction for failing to stop and report an accident dismissed. The court refused to admit fresh evidence and held counsel’s errors caused no miscarriage of justice.

  • Fresh-evidence-on-appeal
  • Statutory-defence
  • Competence-of-counsel
  • Road-traffic-offences
  • Fresh-evidence
  • Miscarriage-of-justice
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Criminal-law [2016] JRC 115

Le Pavoux -v- AG

Le Pavoux -v- AG [2016] JRC 115 (05 July 2016)

The Royal Court allowed a criminal appeal in part, quashing two common assault convictions for lack of sufficient evidence but upholding one conviction.

  • Common-assault
  • Breach-of-the-peace
  • Miscarriage-of-justice
  • Legal-representation
  • Appeal-procedure
  • Criminal-appeal
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Criminal-law [2010] JCA 091

Harding v AG

Harding v AG [2010] JCA 091 (18 May 2010)

The Court of Appeal allowed Gemma Harding’s appeal, holding that she was probably unfit to plead at trial and that her convictions were a miscarriage of justice.

  • Fitness-to-plead
  • Insanity-defence
  • Miscarriage-of-justice
  • Procedure-for-unfit-defendants
  • Unfitness-to-plead
  • Criminal-appeals
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Civil-procedure [2008] JRC 007

O'Brien v Marett

O'Brien v Marett [2008] JRC 007 (16 January 2008)

The Royal Court of Jersey refused to extend time for appeals against earlier judgments and dismissed the Third Party’s leave-to-appeal applications.

  • Leave-to-appeal
  • Extension-of-time
  • Costs-orders
  • Case-management-directions
  • Consent-order
  • Miscarriage-of-justice
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Criminal-law [2005] JLR 374

Simao v Att. Gen.

Simao v Att. Gen. [2005] JLR 374 (09 September 2005)

On an appeal against conviction, the court considered whether new psychiatric evidence could show a miscarriage of justice by proving the conviction was objectively wrongful.

  • Appeal-against-conviction
  • Miscarriage-of-justice
  • Insanity-defence
  • New-evidence
  • Criminal-appeal
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Criminal-law [2005] JCA 090

Hume -v- A.G.

Hume -v- A.G. [2005] JCA 090 (06 July 2005)

Appeal against drug convictions partly turned on circumstantial phone evidence and non-disclosure of a key witness identity. Conviction quashed and retrial ordered.

  • Misuse-of-drugs
  • Disclosure
  • Circumstantial-evidence
  • Fair-trial
  • Miscarriage-of-justice
  • Criminal-appeals
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Criminal-law [2005] JLR 327

Hume v Att. Gen.

Hume v Att. Gen. [2005] JLR 327 (06 July 2005)

The case concerns Crown disclosure in a criminal prosecution and the risk of miscarriage of justice if nondisclosure deprives the accused of a fair trial.

  • Disclosure
  • Fair-trial
  • Miscarriage-of-justice
  • Circumstantial-evidence
  • Criminal-procedure
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