UPDATED 5 FEBRUARY 2009

2.2   ACCORDING TO THE EVIDENCE

"It is your duty to decide the case according to the evidence you have heard in court, (and not be influenced by anything which you have heard, read or seen elsewhere). You must clear your minds of all sympathy for or against either the prosecution or the accused or the victim of the crime. You must decide the case calmly and fairly in the light of the evidence and nothing else.

(The evidence means the evidence for the prosecution as well as the evidence by (and/or on behalf of) the defendant. (The defendant did not have to give evidence but chose to do so and what he had to say is just as much evidence in the case as the evidence of the other witnesses who gave evidence.) You must consider all of the evidence before arriving at your verdict(s) and there may be something in the prosecution evidence which assists the defence case or in the defence case which assists the prosecution's case.)"