The Weekly Law Reports
[2005] 2 WLR 709
House of Lords
Regina
v
Z
[2005] UKHL 22
2005 Feb 9,
10;
March 17
March 17
Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Steyn, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, Baroness Hale of Richmond and Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood
Crime
— Duress
— Voluntary association
— Defendant associating with known criminal
— Defendant committing aggravated burglary
— Whether defence of duress available
Crime
— Evidence
— Confession
— Admissibility
— Off the record statement thought to be exculpatory when made
— Inconsistencies between statement and defendant's case at trial
— Prosecution seeking to cross-examine on contents of statement
— Whether statement adverse to defendant
— Whether “confession”
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Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c 60), s. 82(1)