Prosecutors are to seek a retrial in the case of a dental nurse accused of poisoning her boss's coffee after a jury failed to reach a verdict.
The Public Prosecution Service is seeking a retrial in the case of three Ballymena men whose convictions were recently quashed for the 2006 murder of teenager Michael McIlveen.
The Supreme Court upheld the verdict in one case, sent another back for retrial, and is still hearing the third.
Though Iran's Supreme Court quashed the death sentence in February 2003, the case was promptly sent back for retrial by the very court that ordered the execution.
There were chaotic scenes on Saturday as the judge presiding over the retrial, Mustafa Hassan Abdullah, withdrew from the case citing his "unease" in overseeing the proceedings.
The jury in that case failed to reach a verdict and a retrial got underway in September 2008.
The court did not acquit Andersen, but sent the case back to the lower court for a retrial, though prosecutors are now likely to let the matter rest.
Prosecutor Richard Barton told the court he would seek a retrial, provisionally set for 22 April, after discussing the case with the complainant.
Resisting the bid to have the case sent back to a different judge for a retrial of the civil claim, Augustus Ullstein QC said that to allow "a second bite of the cherry" would create serious injustice.
But the prospect of a retrial faces long odds, according to a person familiar with the case, and couldn't include the count on which Mr. Edwards was acquitted.
Mr Mubarak's first retrial collapsed in April amid chaotic scenes as the presiding judge referred the case to another court.
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But the court allowed for the possibility of a retrial of Florence Cassez, 37, saying there were violations in the case.
The retrial was to begin last weekend, but a judge recused himself from the case, prompting a delay.
The decision that Junior Bayode will not face a retrial for a schoolboy's murder at London's Victoria Station marks the end of a case which saw an unprecedented use of a law called joint enterprise.
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