In jurisprudence,double jeopardy is a procedural defence that prevents an accused person from being tried again on the same charges following an acquittal or conviction and in rare cases prosecutorial and/or judge misconduct in the same jurisdiction. Double jeopardy is a common concept in criminal law –in civil law,a similar concept is that of res judicata. The double jeopardy protection in criminal prosecutions bars only an identical prosecution for the same offence except when the defendant is a servicemember as the courts have ruled that the military courts are a separate sovereign,therefore servicemembers can be held in two separate trials for the exact same charges;however,a different offence may be charged on identical evidence at a second trial. Res judicata protection is stronger –it precludes any causes of action or claims that arise from a previously litigated subject matter.
Barry Michael George is an English man who was found guilty of the murder of English television presenter Jill Dando and whose conviction was overturned on appeal.
R v Adams [1996] EWCA Crim 10 and 222,are rulings in the United Kingdom that banned the expression in court of headline (soundbite),standalone Bayesian statistics from the reasoning admissible before a jury in DNA evidence cases,in favour of the calculated average number of matching incidences among the nation's population. The facts involved strong but inconclusive evidence conflicting with the DNA evidence,leading to a retrial.
Jane Longhurst was a British special-needs teacher and musician who was murdered by Graham Coutts on 14 March 2003. Longhurst's partly decomposed body was found burning in woodland in West Sussex on 19 April. Coutts,who was dating Longhurst's best friend,was a guitarist and part-time salesperson living in Brighton.
Rape is a statutory offence in England and Wales. The offence is created by section 1 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003:
(1) A person (A) commits an offence if—
(2) Whether a belief is reasonable is to be determined having regard to all the circumstances,including any steps A has taken to ascertain whether B consents.
(3) Sections 75 and 76 apply to an offence under this section.
(4) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable,on conviction on indictment,to imprisonment for life.
The Pakistan cricket spot-fixing scandal was a sports scandal that occurred during a Test match between England and Pakistan at Lord's,London,in August 2010. The scandal centered on three members of Pakistan's national cricket team,who were convicted of taking bribes from a bookmaker,Mazhar Majeed,to deliberately bowl no-balls at certain pre-arranged moments during the Test.
Sir Brian Henry Leveson is a retired English judge who is the current Investigatory Powers Commissioner,having previously served as the President of the Queen's Bench Division and Head of Criminal Justice.
R v Evans and McDonald was the prosecution of two footballers,Ched Evans and Clayton McDonald,who were accused of the rape of a woman. On 20 April 2012,Evans was convicted and sentenced to five years imprisonment. McDonald was acquitted. Several people were later fined after naming the woman on Twitter and other social media websites.
Alexander Luke Davies is an English cricketer who plays for Warwickshire. He is a right-handed batsman who also plays as a wicket-keeper. Davies was included in the England Under-19 squad for the 2012 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup.
Tom Kohler-Cadmore is an English professional cricketer who plays for Somerset. He is a right-handed batsman who also bowls right-arm off spin.
Lurking doubt,also known as the Cooper test,is a legal test allowing an appeal court in England and Wales to overturn a conviction on the basis that it disagrees with the jury's verdict.
Joe Michael Clarke is an English cricketer who plays for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club. He is a right-handed batsman who also plays as a wicket-keeper.
Matthew Thomas Renshaw is an Australian international cricketer. He played eleven Tests for Australia between 2016 and 2018 as an opening batsman,and was recalled to the Test team in 2023. In domestic first-class cricket he plays for Queensland,and in the Big Bash League he has played for the Brisbane Heat and Adelaide Strikers.
R v Jogee[2016] UKSC 8 was a 2016 judgment of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom that reversed previous case law on joint enterprise. The Supreme Court delivered its ruling jointly with the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council,which was considering an appeal from Jamaica,Ruddock v The Queen [2016] UKPC 7.
Patrick Rhys Brown is an English cricketer who plays for Derbyshire,having previously played for Worcestershire. He made his international debut for England in November 2019.
Kashif Ali is a Pakistani-born cricketer.
The 2020 Bob Willis Trophy was a first-class cricket tournament held in the 2020 English cricket season,and the inaugural edition of the Bob Willis Trophy. It was separate from the County Championship,which was not held in 2020 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. The eighteen county cricket teams were split into three regional groups of six,with the two group winners with the most points advancing to a final held at Lord's. The maximum number of overs bowled in a day was reduced from 96 to 90,and the team's first innings could be no longer than 120 overs.
In the context of a jury trial,the term unsafe verdict refers to a judicial finding that a jury's guilty verdict is unsafe and should be overturned.
R v Clinton [2012] EWCA Crim 2 is a judgment of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales concerning the loss of control defence to murder,and the context of sexual infidelity.
McNally v R [Crim 1051 (2013)],is a 2013 court decision in which the English and Wales Court of Appeals (EWCA) ruled that Scottish student Justine McNally's prior conviction of six counts of sexual assault by penetration would be upheld. McNally's sentence,however,was reduced. The convictions were made under the Sexual Offences Act 2003. Various other cases were explored to maintain the conviction,expanding the previously slim "rape by deception" laws. McNally v R was one of the first cases to display gender fraud or gender deception arguments.
