Regret the Error

IN THE article “Lawyers, mugs and money”, published on April 21, the Herald reported that a judge had aborted a sexual assault trial saying that a three-day cross-examination of the alleged victim by the defence barrister Tania Evers had caused the trial to run off the rails.
This was incorrect.
The Herald accepts that the trial involved nine charges relating to events on five days; that Ms Evers’s cross-examination took less than two days; that the judge did not say her cross-examination had caused the trial to run off the rails; that the judge did not abort the trial because of her cross-examination but because of the prosecutor’s cross-examination of a defence witness 10 days later.
The Herald withdraws any suggestion to the contrary and apologises to Ms Evers for any hurt and embarrassment caused. Link