A jury's comparison of two passport photographs to determine whether they depict the same person is not identification evidence of the kind requiring mandatory Domican directions. The common law requirement for judicial warnings applies only where there is a feature of the evidence that may adversely affect its reliability and which may not be evident to a lay jury. The totality principle does not apply where there is only comparatively little overlap between offending periods and the earlier sentences were completed years before sentencing for the later offence.
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