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R v Hunter and others [2015]
EWCA Crim 631
■ The benefits of the good character directions had, in the
years following Vye and Aziz, had been wrongly extended
to defendants who, because of their convictions, cautions or
misconduct did not merit being treated as of good character,
including some whose claims were spurious.