In the Court of Appeal

Designation of an offence as the 'first occasion' in a series of sexual offences against a child may provide sufficient particularity where the time frame is confined (approximately six weeks), the location is specified, and the circumstances are identified, even though the offence cannot be distinguished from others by any external fact or event. There is no obligation on a trial judge to warn the jury at the point of admission of uncharged acts evidence; the essential requirement is adequate direction in the summing-up.