Evidence Law in UK Law

  • Myers v DPP
    • House of Lords
    • 17 June 1964
    ... ... 3 But a great deal of evidence of various kinds was adduced against the Appellant in a trial which lasted for I think 29 days, and the Appellant was shown to be involved in the ... ...
  • R v Kilbourne
    • House of Lords
    • 31 January 1973
    ... ... The charges all related to offences alleged to have been committed against young boys. All the boys gave evidence and were sworn. The first 3 convictions still in question related to dates between October and November, 1970, and the boys concerned were John, ... ...
  • R v Turner (Terence)
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 17 October 1974
    ... ... He has appealed against his conviction on the ground that the Judge refused to admit evidence which a psychiatrist was prepared to give in support of his defence of provocation. He has asked this Court to receive that evidence ... ...
  • R v Boardman
    • House of Lords
    • 13 November 1974
    ... ... 3 The trial took place over a period of five days. There was no application for separate trials of the counts. Each boy gave evidence. In addition to giving evidence as to the occasion which was the subject of the charge, Said gave evidence as to several incidents which took place ... ...
  • R v Sang (on Appeal from HM Court of Appeal (Criminal Division))
    • House of Lords
    • 25 July 1979
    ... ... for this, would not have been committed by the accused, the judge had a discretion 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 of dicta from impressive sources which, on the face of them, suggest that ... ...
  • Kennedy v Cordia (Services) LLP
    • Supreme Court (Scotland)
    • 01 February 2017
    ... ... and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 ("the Management Regulations") ( SI 1999/3242 ), to employers' liability at common law, and to expert evidence in this field ... The accident ... 2 The appellant, Miss Kennedy, was employed by the respondents, Cordia ... ...
  • E v Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 02 February 2004
    ... ... the IAT, where it is shown that an important part of its reasoning was based on ignorance or mistake as to the facts; and (b) to admit new evidence to demonstrate the mistake ... 2 Doubt has been thrown on these issues by apparently conflicting approaches in two ... ...
  • Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung v Rayner & Keeler Ltd and Others (Original Appeal) and Rayner & Keeler Ltd and Others v Courts and Others (Cross Appeal)
    • House of Lords
    • 18 May 1966
    ... ... 6 We do not have precise evidence about this but it is said that in 1949 the U.S.S.R. set up the German Democratic Republic to govern that part of Germany then occupied by Russia, and ... ...
  • R v A (No 2)
    • House of Lords
    • 17 May 2001
    ... ... recognised in section 2 of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1976 which provided that without the leave of the judge there should be no evidence or cross examination by or on behalf of the defendant of a complainant's sexual experience with a person other than the accused. Leave was only to be ... ...
  • Woolmington v DPP
    • House of Lords
    • 05 April 1935
    ... ... That's all." ... 6 The learned Judge in summing up the case to the jury said:— "If you accept his evidence, you will have little doubt that she died in consequence of a gunshot wound which was inflicted by a gun which he had taken to this house, and which ... ...
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