The Independent on Saturday

Court ‘blunder’

- From: COLIN MACKENZIE Gillitts

ONCE again a High Court judge has accepted a “cock and bull” story from a man accused of murdering his female partner, leaving the prosecutio­n with no avenue of appealing against the verdict due to the provisions of the National Prosecutio­n Act that restricts such an appeal to points of law and not fact.

When is the government going to reform this glaring discrepanc­y in our law.

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