The Weekly Law Reports
[1995] 3 WLR 818
[COURT OF APPEAL]
REGINA
v.
COWAN
REGINA
v.
GAYLE
REGINA
v.
RICCIARDI
1995 Oct. 5;
12
Lord Taylor of Gosforth C.J., Turner and Latham JJ.
Crime
— Evidence
— Defendant's failure to give evidence
— Right to silence
— Appropriate direction to jury about inference to be drawn from silence
— Whether guilt capable of proof solely by failure to testify or answer questions
— Warning to jury against drawing adverse inference unless no other reasonable excuse for silence
—
Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (c. 33), s. 35