The Weekly Law Reports
[2019] 1 WLR 5265
Court of Appeal
*Regina v Patten (Ralph)
[2018] EWCA Crim 2492
2018 Nov 1
Sir Brian Leveson P, William Davis, May JJ
Crime— Jury— Verdict— Judge directing jury of 11 that he would accept verdicts on which nine of them agreed— Direction inconsistent with statutory requirement that ten jurors required for majority verdict from jury of 11— Whether misdirection invalidating all verdicts which followed or only those expressed to be by majority of nine—
Juries Act 1974 (c 23), s 17(1)