James Manning was led in the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) – judgment now reported

James Manning appeared in the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) earlier this year, led by Richard Thomas KC (of Doughty Street Chambers): R v Maria Joao GONCALVES [2025] EWCA Crim 1260. The case was an appeal against conviction from the Crown Court at Snaresbrook (HHJ Falk); the grounds of appeal related to the admissibility of material suggesting that the appellant had been convicted in a foreign court of an offence of dishonesty, whether the appellant was entitled to give evidence asserting that she was a person of good character, and whether the appellant was entitled to a full good character direction. Lord Justice Holroyde (Vice-President of the Court of Appeal, Criminal Division, as he then was) gave the judgment which has been reported on CrimeLine and on BAILII

James was instructed by Ian McLarty of McLarty’s Solicitors