The fruits of Jogee?
James Wood QC, the leader of Doughty Street Crime Team, who appeared for Tyler Burton in the combined appeals in the case of Johnson and others where the Court of Appeal dealt with a series of joint enterprise cases arising from the Supreme Court decision of Jogee. He concludes the Court of Appeal will have dashed the hopes of campaigners who had felt that the Supreme Court’s decision in Jogee would lead to a widespread reconsideration of past murder convictions on grounds that the historic “wrong turn” in the law of joint enterprise, and that it would lead to the release of many and the reconsideration of many cases long regarded as miscarriages of justice. He draws some threads together from the judgment, and sets out what it will now be necessary to show in order to win historic joint enterprise appeals in the future.
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