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What is a cut-throat defence in criminal proceedings?

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Published on: 28 April 2021
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When one Defendant in a criminal trial seeks to advance a Defence case to the effect that the perpetrator of a Criminal act was their co-accused (ie blaming their co-accused), this is called cutting their co-accused’s throat, or a ‘cut throat defence’.

It is most often relied on when there is clear evidence to place before the magistrates’ or jury that an offence has been committed and where there was an opportunity for two or more people to commit the offence. By advancing a defence that the other person was in fACT the culpable

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The statement of case in which the defendant sets out the facts on which he relies in response to the particulars of claim.

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