Where a violent incident involves large numbers of participants and a moving sequence of events, a trial judge is not required to link specific evidence to individual elements of self-defence for each witness; comprehensive directions on the law of self-defence combined with a summary of the evidence may be sufficient. Witness credibility warnings are not required where the matters affecting credibility (alcohol consumption, hostility between parties, inconsistencies) are patently obvious to the jury.
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