Gojra & Anor [2010] EWCA Crim 1939

Before the Court of Appeal, Riz succeeded in overturning a serious criminal conviction rooted in breaches of Code D identification procedures.
The court accepted that such procedural deficiencies can contaminate not only identification evidence, but the evidential matrix as a whole, unless the jury is properly and explicitly warned.
The judgment underscores a fundamental point of English criminal justice, that the fairness of the process is inseparable from the fairness of the outcome, and that the burden lies on the state to demonstrate that irregularities have not caused injustice.
Riz’s success in this instance reflects advocacy executed with both analytical acuity and exceptional attention to procedural propriety.