Practitioners seeking permanent stays of criminal proceedings should note that the prosecution's duty of disclosure does not extend to information held by external agencies engaged as consultants, where the prosecution had no knowledge of the relevant material; and that the strength of an alternative hypothesis cannot be assessed at the stay stage before it has been tested at trial.
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