"Let me turn to my summary of the evidence now. We will deal with what was going on before Mitcham and what went on at Mitcham and then, perhaps, we will stop when we get to Bermondsey because I have endeavoured to do this chronologically. I will try to read together all the evidence the Crown called, address by address. It is sometimes difficult to do so because it is not entirely clear, perhaps, which address we are dealing with at any given point. When we come to the defence evidence, however, I will simply remind you of what each defendant said. Firstly, it is fresher in your minds anyway and secondly, that was the way they gave their evidence and it is important, perhaps, that I remind you of how that flowed."
"We will turn to what each defendant said. You have heard this rather more recently, so I am not going to repeat every word of what each defendant said, but it is only fair to the defendants if I remind you in summarised form of their accounts."
"That completes my review of the evidence."
"However, in our view, whatever the historic approach might have been, the present position should be understood differently. First, it would be inconsistent with Part 1 of the Criminal Procedure Rules, the duty of the parties to conduct the case in accordance with the Overriding Objective, for either prosecuting or defence counsel not to raise with the judge what appears to be an error in the summing-up, whether of law or fact. Second, there is nothing necessarily inconsistent between defence counsel's duty to a client and acting in that interest so as to correct what may be mistakes in the summing-up which may result in a conviction. The client's interests are unlikely to be best served by relying on the success of an appeal against conviction and the possibility of a retrial. In these circumstances, if counsel remains silent, this Court is entitled to proceed on the basis that what was said in a summing-up was not regarded as an error or at least a material error at the time. We would add that subsequent trawls through the transcript of a summingup searching for infelicities of expression is not an exercise which is likely to prove productive of a successful appeal."