MISTRIAL

• Date: 06 February 2019

"So a mistrial generally permeates the entire trial or a substantial part of it. A mistrial does not result from a single slip in the admission or rejection of evidence unless of course, by its very nature, it could be said to have run through the whole proceedings, or a substantial part of it. It often results in situations in which it can be said that in law these has been no trial at all: See: Crane v. D.P.P. 15 Cr. App. R. 183; The State v. Lopez (1968) 1 All L.R...