The Weekly Law Reports
[2007] 1 WLR 1645
Court of Appeal
Regina
v
Finch
[2007] EWCA Crim 36
2007 Jan 15
Hughes LJ, Rafferty J and Sir Charles Mantell
Crime
— Evidence
— Admissibility
— Confession by co-defendant
— Co-defendant pleading guilty not called as witness in defendant's trial
— Whether co-defendant “person charged in the same proceedings” as defendant
— Whether confession admissible
— Whether co-defendant's statements to police admissible as hearsay evidence
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Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c 60), s. 76A (as inserted by Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c 44), s. 128(1))
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Criminal Justice Act 2003, s. 114(1)(d)