Fair Trial in UK Law

  • R v A (No 2)
    • House of Lords
    • 17 mai 2001
    ... ... 5 But the accused is entitled to a fair trial and there is an obvious conflict between the interests of protecting ... ...
  • Brown v Stott (Procurator Fiscal, Dunfermline)
    • Privy Council
    • 05 décembre 2000
    ... ... , the Procurator Fiscal at Dunfermline, as prosecutor, could rely at trial on the respondent's admission compulsorily obtained under section ... trial for an offence against section 5, would infringe her right to a fair trial guaranteed by article 6 of the Convention. Its reasons for that ... ...
  • Al-Rawi & others v The Security Service & others
    • Supreme Court
    • 13 juillet 2011
    ... ... issue that was tried by Silber J for the whole or part of the trial of a civil claim for damages and, if so, in what circumstances it is ... 8 The appellants submit that the right to a fair trial is absolute, but the means of satisfying that right vary according ... ...
  • Allen v Sir Alfred McAlpine & Sons Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 11 janvier 1968
    ... ... Her case has not yet been set down for trial. In the second case, a nurse complained that she strained her back over ... Every year that passes prejudices the fair trial". We struck out those cases for want of prosecution. This meant that ... ...
  • R v Sang (on Appeal from HM Court of Appeal (Criminal Division))
    • House of Lords
    • 25 juillet 1979
    ... ... He submitted that if the judge were satisfied at a "trial within a trial" that the offence was instigated by an agent provocateur ... 4 It is only fair to the police to point out that there never was a trial within a trial ... ...
  • Attorney General's Reference (No. 2 of 2001); R v J
    • House of Lords
    • 11 décembre 2003
    ... ... On 16 June 2000 the defendants were committed for trial in the Crown Court, where they were charged in an indictment containing a ... accepted (p 1876, para 21) that a stay would have to be imposed if a fair trial were not possible and would be appropriate if it would be unfair to ... ...
  • English v Emery Reimbold & Strick Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 30 avril 2002
    ... ... The trial had involved a stark conflict of expert evidence. The Judge had preferred ... to explain why he had reached his decision, he had not received a fair trial and was entitled to a retrial ... 4 The decision ... ...
  • R v Looseley
    • House of Lords
    • 25 octobre 2001
    ... ... But a trial judge has a discretion to exclude evidence of an offence where its ... of police incitement'), may deprive a defendant of the right to a fair trial embodied in article 6: see the decision of the European Court of ... ...
  • David Shields Montgomery (Appellant) HM Advocate and Another (Respondents) Andrew Alexander Marshall Coulter (Appellant) HM Advocate and Another (Respondents)
    • Privy Council
    • 19 octobre 2000
    ... ... High Court of Justiciary was asked to say that there cannot now be a fair trial of the two appellants for the murder of Surjit Singh Chhokar on 4th ... ...
  • R v Jones
    • House of Lords
    • 20 février 2002
    ... ... , is this: "Can the Crown Court conduct a trial in the absence, from its commencement, of the defendant?" ... That court has also laid down (1)  that a fair hearing requires a defendant to be notified of the proceedings against ... ...
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