The Weekly Law Reports
[1982] 1 WLR 614
[COURT OF APPEAL]
REGINA
v.
ROSE (NEWTON)
REGINA
v.
HENRY (IAN)
REGINA
v.
CLARKE (CARSON)
REGINA
v.
JOHNSON (ORVILLE)
1982 March 8
Lord Lane C.J., Watkins L.J. and Stephen Brown J.
Crime
— Jury
— Retirement to consider verdict
— Judge's private communication to jury in retirement limiting time for verdict
— Whether material irregularity in course of trial
— Whether discretion in Court of Appeal to order venire de novo
Crime
— Court of Appeal
— New trial
— Conviction quashed on ground of material irregularity while jury in retirement
— Whether power to order venire de novo