Hostile Witness in UK Law

  • R v Galbraith
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 19 Maio 1981
    ... ... telling the truth and stop the case merely because he thinks the witness is lying. To do that is to usurp the functions of the jury." Although this ... Leave was eventually given to treat him as hostile. Cook described how the applicant, or a man who, from the description ... ...
  • R v Horncastle and another
    • Supreme Court
    • 09 Dezembro 2009
    ... ... the fact that there was placed before the jury the statement of a witness who was not called to give evidence. In each case the witness was the ... ...
  • R v Goodway
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 29 Julho 1993
    ... ... 17 A statement was taken from a witness named Keen in the early hours of the morning. It was a circumstantial ... by defending counsel to be allowed to treat Mr Keen a s a hostile witness. He was then cross-examined on his statement. So far from adopting ... ...
  • R v Brown Lucas Jaggard Laskey Carter (Conjoined Appeals)
    • House of Lords
    • 11 Março 1993
    ... ... in relation to the receivers were unlawful they were also hostile and a necessary ingredient of assault was present ... 67 It was ... a manner which left seven or eight marks indicative, as a medical witness said, of "a fairly severe beating". He was charged with indecent assault ... ...
  • Phipps v Boardman
    • House of Lords
    • 03 Novembro 1966
    ... ... was hostile ... 11 On their return to Northampton they reported what had happened ... We do not know what would have been said on this point in the witness box, but it is not unlikely Mr. Fox would have said: "I knew all ... ...
  • Ashish Balajigari v The Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 16 Abril 2019
    ... ... out in the Immigration Act 2014 and are sometimes known as “the hostile environment”: we give more details of these at para. 81 below ... 54 ... that application, his solicitors submitted to the Upper Tribunal a witness statement from him purporting to explain the discrepancy. It included ... ...
  • Re F (Mental Patient: Sterilisation); F v West Berkshire HA
    • House of Lords
    • 04 Maio 1989
    ... ... A witness who saw him walking round the lorry, climb into his cab and drive off saw ... C.J.); and it has recently been said that the touching must be "hostile" to have that effect (see Wilson v. Pringle [1987] Q.B. 237, 253 ). I ... ...
  • The Reverend Canon Jeremy Pemberton v The Right Reverend Richard Inwood, Former Acting Bishop of Soutwell and Nottingham
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 Março 2018
    ... ... to which the historic formularies of the Church of England bear witness. In addition, he is required to swear an oath of allegiance to the bishop ... — (i) violating B's dignity, or (ii) creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for B ... ...
  • R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Robinson
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 11 Julho 1997
    ... ... The Special Adjudicator had found the applicant and his supporting witness, the uncle to whom we have referred, to be credible witnesses. He held ... persecuted in one part of his country, to move to another less hostile part of the country before seeking refugee status abroad?" ... ...
  • Burstein v Times Newspapers Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 28 Novembro 2002
    ... ... of the musical establishment (critics were for the most part hostile and he was unable to secure funding for his work), a fact which clearly ... 15 The defendants had served no witness statements in advance of the trial. They wanted, however, to rely on a ... ...
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