Direction to Jury in United Kingdom

Definition of Direction To Jury

In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Direction To Jury : The duty of a judge to instruct a jury on a point of law (e.g. the definition of the crime charged or the nature and scope of possible defences). Failure to carry out this instruction correctly may be grounds for an appeal if a miscarriage of justice is likely to have occurred as a result of the misdirection.