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1. Guilty plea following ruling - safety of conviction after admission of guilt by way of plea - approach of Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) - appropriateness of application to stay for abuse - admissibility of evidence alleged to have been obtained unlawfully - Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, s. 78 - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 - meaning of interception - admissibility of tape-recorded telephone conversation where taped by one of the parties to those calls.

2. Criminal Appeal Act 1995, ss. 9-13 - reference by the Criminal Cases Review Commission - the rule in Pinfold - ability of Court of Appeal to depart from its previous decision where there was no new argument or evidence - requirement for 'exceptional circumstances'.

3. Human rights - whether judge should be disqualified on ground of bias - test to be applied when determining - human rights - privacy - admissions obtained in secret by recorded conversations between co-accused - police bugging remand cell - tape recording obtained after accused arrested and charged with other offences - whether contrary to right to privacy - whether evidence of admissions in tape recordings admissible - European Convention on Huiman Rights, Art. 8 - criminal evidence - admissions and confessions - admissions obtained in secret by recorded conversations between co-accused - police bugging remand cell - tape recording obtained after accused arrested and charged with other offences - whether evidence of admissions in tape recordings admissible - Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, ss. 76,78.

4. Leave to appeal - application - defendants having absconded prior to application for leave to appeal being lodged - whether legal representatives had express or implied authority to lodge an application for leave to appeal on behalf of their clients - whether presumption that the legal representatives were without instruction offended the right of access to court - European Convention on Human Rights, art. 6.

5. Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999, s. 41 - rape - judge giving pre-trial ruling refusing defendant leave to adduce evidence of alleged sexual history with complainant - whether evidence admissible on the issue of consent - European Convention on Human Rights, art. 6.

6. Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, s. 78 - exclusion of evidence - entrapment disclosure - journalist's informant - whether identity should be disclosed - Contempt of Court Act 1981, s. 10 - European Convention on Human Rights, art. 6 - right to a fair trial - whether contravened by admission of evidence obtained by entrapment - discretion of judge.

7. Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, s. 64(3B)(b) - DNA evidence - use of profile wrongly held on National DNA Database following acquittal - profile cannot be used in evidence or in an investigation - if used in an investigation, then all evidence resulting from that investigation must be excluded.

11. Criminal Appeal Act 1995, s. 9 - reference by the Criminal Cases Review Commission - approach to grounds considered in a previous appeal - Criminal Appeal Act 1995, s. 14(5).

13. Human rights - European Convention on Human Rights, Art. 9 - religion - defendant member of Rastafarian religion found in possession of and intending to share cannabis with other members of his faith - defendant charged with possession of Class B drug with intent to supply - whether prosecution in breach of Article 9.

14. Protection from Harassment Act 1997, ss. 1 and 2 - direction to jury - reasonable person - reasonable conduct - defendant suffering from paranoid schizophrenia - whether reasonable person sharing mental characteristics of defendant - whether mental illness relevant to question whether conduct reasonable.

16. Criminal Appeal Act 1968, s. 2(1) - safety of conviction test and breach of article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights - the Court of Appeal should approach the issue of safety of the conviction in exactly the same way as the European Court of Human Rights approaches lack of fairness.

19. Theft Act 1968, s. 5(3) - property belonging to another - received from or on account of another - appellant receiving money from colleagues for purchases from hamper company - appellant failing to hand over money to hamper company - whether cash belonging to hamper company.

21. Jury - verdict - verdict announced as unanimous - juror stating on the following day that he and possibly other jurors disagreed with verdict - judge declining to make any inquiries of jurors in relation to verdict - whether judge in error - whether conviction consequently unsafe - jury - majority verdict - Juries Act 1974, s. 17(3) - statement of number of assenting and dissenting jurors - failure to comply with requirement that number of dissenting jurors be stated by foreman in open court - whether verdict valid - whether conviction consequently unsafe.

24. Theft Act 1968, s. 5(3) - property received from or on account of another - obligation to deal with the property in a particular way - trustee cannot treat such property as his own unless the terms of the trust specifically provides for this - duplicity - whether it is permissible to charge a general deficiency in cases where it was impracticable to identify individual serial appropriations.

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