Confession Evidence in UK Law

  • Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984
    • UK Non-devolved
    • January 01, 1984
    ... ... 9), ss. 1, 5(2)(3); S.I. 2012/1236, reg. 2 ... Confessions ... 76: Confessions ... (1) In any proceedings a confession made by an accused person may be given in evidence against him in so far as it is relevant to any matter in issue in the proceedings and is not ... ...
  • Indictable Offences Act 1848
    • UK Non-devolved
    • January 01, 1848
    ... ... in Substance or in Form, or for any Variance between it and the Evidence adduced on the Part of the Prosecution before the Justice or Justices who ... been holden out to him to induce him to make any Admission or Confession of his Guilt, but that whatever he shall then say may be given in Evidence ... ...
  • Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989
    • UK Non-devolved
    • January 01, 1989
    ... ... Interpretation of Part IX S-70 ... Interpretation of Part IX Interpretation of Part IX ... 70. —(1) In this Part— ... “confession” includes any statement wholly or partly adverse to the person who made it, whether made to a person in authority or not and whether made in words ... ...
  • Common Law Procedure Act 1852
    • UK Non-devolved
    • January 01, 1852
    ... ... Production of renewed Writ Evidence of Commencement of Action. XIII Production of renewed Writ Evidence of ... the several Matters sought to be pleaded as aforesaid by way of Confession and Avoidance are respectively true in Substance and in Fact, and that he ... ...
  • Administration of Justice Act 1705
    • UK Non-devolved
    • January 01, 1705
    ... ... be entred upon Confession, Nihil dicit ... , or Non sum informatus ... , in any Court of Record; ... or Place, in Question, in order to their better understanding the Evidence that will be given upon the Trials of such Issues, in every such Case the ... ...
  • Vagrancy Act 1824
    • UK Non-devolved
    • January 01, 1824
    ... ... (being thereof convicted before him by his own View, or by the Confession of such Offender, or by the Evidence on Oath of One or more credible ... ...
  • The Armed Forces Act 2006 (Transitional Provisions etc) Order 2009
    • UK Non-devolved
    • January 01, 2009
    ... ... or AFA 1955 (direction prohibiting trial for desertion where confession made) ;(e) an order under section 74 of NDA 1957 (order dispensing with ... commanding officer of a person—(i) that there was sufficient evidence to charge the person with an offence (“the relevant offence”) , but ... ...
  • Trespass (Scotland) Act 1865
    • UK Non-devolved
    • January 01, 1865
    ... ... a Magistrate, and on being convicted of such Offence on his own Confession, or on the Evidence of One or more credible Witnesses, shall for a First ... ...
  • Thames and Isis: Navigation Act 1750
    • UK Non-devolved
    • January 01, 1750
    ... ... 'I A. B ... do swear, That such Information or Evidence as I shall give, shall be the Truth, the whole ... Truth, and nothing but ... Way, and to convict the Offenders, either upon their own Confession, or upon the Evidence of one credible Witness upon Oath, which Oath such ... ...
  • Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act 1862
    • UK Non-devolved
    • January 01, 1862
    ... ... binding on all concerned ... As to Evidence to be taken by Commissioners. 17 As to Evidence to be taken by ... Proof on Oath by One or more credible Witness or Witnesses or Confession of the Person accused, or other legal Evidence, forthwith to determine and ... ...
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