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You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> England and Wales Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) Decisions >> Christian, R v [2015] EWCA Crim 1582 (20 August 2015) URL: https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Crim/2015/1582.html Cite as: [2015] EWCA Crim 1582 |
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CRIMINAL DIVISION
Strand London, WC2 |
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MR JUSTICE SWEENEY
MR JUSTICE PICKEN
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MRS P MAY appeared on behalf of the CROWN
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VERSION
OF JUDGMENT
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LORD JUSTICE TREACY:
"Before we come to look at the individual items of law, I want to deal with a matter that was in factraised
by both counsel during their addresses that is important. It is the issue of sympathy. Now, I am sure as private individuals one would certainly feel sympathy for [KC]. She has been dealt a
rough
hand, you may think, with her
various
disabilities that we will be looking at in a moment or two. That is obviously
relevant
to your judgment of her, but the one thing you must not do is to allow sympathy for her as a person in any way to cloud your judgment of her as a witness. That would be quite wrong. It would not be just, and it would be unfair.
You are going to have to look atvarious
matters concerning her evidence, and we will have a further look at what they are in a short while, but at the moment I am dealing purely with the issue of sympathy. Please put it to one side while you are jurors, because otherwise it gets in the way."