This week's NLJ: ‘Reasonable doubt’?

28 May 2020

Issue: 7888 / Categories: Legal News , Criminal

What exactly is meant by ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ and how should a judge direct a jury?

Michael Zander QC, NLJ columnist & Emeritus Professor, LSE considers what different groups of people believe is required to secure a conviction, following inaccurate stories in the press that judges had been urged to stop using the phrase ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ because it confused jurors.

‘One could say that sure has to mean 100%,’ he writes. ‘Anything less than 100% by definition means one has doubts.’

Issue: 7888 / Categories: Legal News , Criminal

The criminal standard of proof: how sure is sure? Pt 2

This week's NLJ: ‘Reasonable doubt’?

What exactly is meant by ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ and how should a judge direct a jury?

‘One could say that sure has to mean 100%,’ he writes. ‘Anything less than 100% by definition means one has doubts.’

Issue: 7888 / Categories: , Legal News , Criminal

The criminal standard of proof: how sure is sure? Pt 2

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