GM trial summing up

Last edited 31 October 2001 at 9:00am
Publication date: 
21 March, 2007

The summing up from the GM trial - Greenpeace 28

Publication date: April 2000

Summary
JUDGE MELLOR: Members of the jury, it is now my task to sum this case up to you. Our jobs are quite distinct. Mine has two parts. First, it is for me to tell you what the law is insofar as it is relevant to your purposes and that you take from me. If I get it wrong in any way that is adverse to any of these defendants there are higher courts to put it right. The second part of my job, members of the jury, is to remind you of some of the evidence in the hope of helping you with your job, your job being to decide the facts, so that when you have decided them you can apply those facts to the law as I shall have set it out and return your verdicts...

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