Where the Crown alleges alternative bases of liability for the same offence — physical participation in a joint criminal enterprise and planning or organising the offence — no extended unanimity direction is required, even where the trial judge presents the alternatives as a dichotomy rather than using an 'at least' formulation, provided the alternatives rest on substantially the same factual foundation and do not involve materially different issues or consequences.
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