A s 306X warning given before a vulnerable person's evidence is not required to be repeated when the recorded interview is replayed, provided no miscarriage of justice results from the omission. The question of the foreperson under s 55F(2)(b) of the Jury Act need not use specific statutory language if, viewed in context of jury notes and prior communications, it is sufficient for the court to reach the requisite degree of satisfaction that unanimity is unlikely. A passing reference to the possibility of a majority verdict in a perseverance direction does not divert the jury from striving for unanimity.
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