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Kurt John Owen v The Queen - SC 25/2007

Media releases

Summary

Criminal – appeal against conviction – whether discretion to consider appeals on the basis of unreasonable verdicts has been unduly restricted – complaint about the adequacy of summing up by trial judge – emotive summing up by prosecution – direction by trial judge concerning prosecution’s comment on the right to silence – trial judge’ s use of the transcript – whether Court of Appeal was correct to hold that overall there was no miscarriage of justice.CA 342/06 21 March 2007

Result

Application for leave to appeal granted.
29 June 2006
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Appeal dismissed.
11 December 2007

Related Documents

Leave judgment - leave granted — R v O (CA342/06) [2007] NZCA 87 (21 March 2007)

Substantive judgment — OWEN V R SC 25/2007 [11 December 2007] (PDF 57 KB)

Additional Information

Transcript Hearing date : 22 November 2007

Substantive judgment / Media release OWEN V R SC 25/2007 [11 December 2007]

Judgment appealed from

R v O (CA342/06) [2007] NZCA 87 (21 March 2007)