{"id":40,"date":"2003-12-20T13:13:53","date_gmt":"2003-12-20T13:13:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-12-20T13:13:53","modified_gmt":"2003-12-20T13:13:53","slug":"r-v-wang-2003-ca-can-a-judge-direct-a-jury-to-convict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"R v Wang (2003) CA &#8211; Can a judge direct a jury to convict?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[Juries &#8211;&nbsp; judge&#8217;s direction to convict]<\/strong><br \/>D,&nbsp;a Chinese asylum seeker had&nbsp;a curved sword for&nbsp;practicing&nbsp;the martial art&nbsp;Shaolin which was a branch of Buddhism at deserted places. The judge held that this was not&nbsp;a good reason for possessing a bladed instrument and directed the jury to convict because the matters raised did not amount to a defence.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Held<\/strong>:&nbsp;The judge was justified in directing the jury to convict. There were a numebr of reasons including the fact that there was no religious requirement. The HRA is not affected.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Guilty<\/strong><br \/>Comment: <font face=Arial color=#003300>The court refused the defendant leave to appeal to the House of Lords but certified that the following point of law of general public importance was involved in its decision: &#8216;In what circumstances, if any, is a judge entitled to direct a verdict of guilty?&#8217;. This is the second time this month that this issue has been raised, see R v Kelleher (this page).<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Juries &#8211;&nbsp; judge&#8217;s direction to convict]D,&nbsp;a Chinese asylum seeker had&nbsp;a curved sword for&nbsp;practicing&nbsp;the martial art&nbsp;Shaolin which was a branch of Buddhism at deserted places. The judge held that this was not&nbsp;a good reason for possessing a bladed instrument and directed the jury to convict because the matters raised did not amount to a defence.&nbsp; Held:&nbsp;The [&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-40","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\/40","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=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}