{"id":268,"date":"2006-01-25T22:12:50","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T22:12:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-01-25T22:12:50","modified_gmt":"2006-01-25T22:12:50","slug":"r-v-james-and-karimi-2006-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"R v James and Karimi [2006] CA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The law of precedent appears to have been changed by the Court of Appeal, who in this judgment has preferred the ruling by the Privy Council to the House of Lords, text books on the law of precedent need rewriting as from today. Two appeals were heard together because each turns on the true interpretation of &#8220;provocation&#8221; s3 Homicide Act 1957. The court sat five strong because they raise a novel and important question of the law relating to precedent. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Held<\/strong>: In effect, in the long term at least, Holley has overruled Morgan Smith. <\/p>\n<p>Full case report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bailii.org\/ew\/cases\/EWCA\/Crim\/2006\/14.html\">here <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The law of precedent appears to have been changed by the Court of Appeal, who in this judgment has preferred the ruling by the Privy Council to the House of Lords, text books on the law of precedent need rewriting as from today. Two appeals were heard together because each turns on the true interpretation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}