A trial judge's summing up in a circumstantial case need not include a Domican identification warning where the prosecution does not rely on identification evidence and the case turns on DNA and circumstantial evidence. Where no individual ground of appeal has a reasonable prospect of succeeding, the cumulative effect ground does not arise at the leave stage but would be left for the appeal proper.
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