Where an episode involves multiple identifiable assaults of different kinds, with different evidence and different defences available, charging them as a single count without particulars constitutes latent duplicity resulting in a substantial miscarriage of justice. The question of duplicity is always one of fact and degree. Failure to raise duplicity at trial does not preclude raising it on appeal.
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