R v Patten (Ralph)

Subject Matter

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)

[2018] EWCA Crim 2492; [2019] 1 WLR 5265; [2019] 2 Cr App R 21; [2019] WLR (D) 307, CA