Confession Evidence in UK Law

  • Benedetto v The Queen (No 2)
    • Privy Council
    • 20 October 2003
    ... ... 36-38) (6) Further comments on Plante's evidence (paras 39-45) (7) The case against Benedetto ... was also crucially dependent on Plante's evidence about the confession which he said Labrador made to him while they were in the same cell. He ... ...
  • R v Mushtaq (Ashfaq Ahmed)
    • House of Lords
    • 21 April 2005
    ... ... whereby the judge conducted a voir dire to decide whether the confession was admissible before it was put in evidence before the jury and the ... ...
  • A v Secretary of State for the Home Department (No. 2)
    • House of Lords
    • 08 December 2005
    ... ... and detained under sections 21 and 23 of that Act, receive evidence which has or may have been procured by torture inflicted, in order to ... the infliction of torture, and does so whether the product is a confession by a suspect or a defendant and irrespective of where, by whom or on whose ... ...
  • DPP v Ping Lin
    • House of Lords
    • 29 July 1975
    ... ... criminal law that no statement by an accused is admissible in evidence against him unless it is shewn by the prosecution to have been a voluntary ... and in the following terms: "(1) In the case of a confession alleged to be inadmissible on the ground that it was obtained by an ... ...
  • R v Sang (on Appeal from HM Court of Appeal (Criminal Division))
    • House of Lords
    • 25 July 1979
    ... ... to refuse to allow the prosecution to prove its case by evidence ... 2 In support of this submission counsel was able to cite a number ... "obtained from a defendant by a trick" is clearly analogous to a confession which the defendant has been unfairly induced to make, and had, indeed, ... ...
  • R v Hasan (Aytach)
    • House of Lords
    • 17 March 2005
    ... ... The first concerns the meaning of "confession" for the purposes of section 76(1) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act ... ...
  • R v Sharp (Colin)
    • House of Lords
    • 16 December 1987
    ... ... Lordships are dealing with a statement which has been admitted in evidence as a whole. Accordingly your Lordships are not called upon to consider ... 17 Evidence contained in a confession is however an exception to the hearsay rule and is admissible. The ... ...
  • R v Prager
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 10 November 1971
    ... ... trial, regarding the admissibility of the proposed prosecution evidence relating to events occurring after 9.15 a.m. His submissions may thus be ... which might provide a factual ground for excluding the confession. On the contrary, Mr. Comyn made it clear that his objection to ... ...
  • Department of Public Prosecutions v Shannon
    • House of Lords
    • 19 June 1974
    ... ... The next step was that the Prosecution decided to offer no evidence against Tracey on the outstanding conspiracy count. Being invited to do ... and acquitted, must the conviction of the first upon his own confession thereupon be quashed?" ... 9 So the question ... ...
  • R v Maxwell
    • Supreme Court
    • 20 July 2011
    ... ... 7 At the trial, Chapman's evidence (which occupied one week) was central to the prosecution case. The defence ... , ranging from serious breaches of PACE to fabricating a confession, where there is nevertheless other strong evidence of the defendant's ... ...
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