Hostile Witness in UK Law
- The Hostile Witness
- When is a Witness Hostile?
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Managing Interrogative Pressure in Police Interviews
Use of various ’ pressure tactics' in police interviews has sometimes been thought necessary, especially when officers have reason to believe that a witness or suspect is hostile or deceitful. Howe...... ... necessary, especially when ofcershave reason to believe that a witness or suspect is hostile ordeceitful. However, defence counsel are ... ...
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Case Commentaries
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Case Commentaries
... ... person, being a judge of the court or a juror or a witness in or a party to any ... 76(2) of PACE ... Hostile witness—India ... In Hamanshu @ Chintu v ... ...
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The Duplicity of Protection—Prosecuting Frightened Victims: An Act of Gender-Based Violence
This article considers the recent developments in the prosecution of perpetrators and victims of domestic violence, and focuses on domestic and European Court of Human Rights' jurisdiction. Particu...... ... Brabyn, A Criminal Defendants Spouse as a Prosecution Witness [2011]Crim LR 613.The Journal of Criminal Law30 ... understanding, proper ... Newark, The Hostile Witness and the Adversary System [1986] Crim LR 441.47 See R vPrefas and ... ...
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The Safety-Valve: Discretion to Admit Hearsay Evidence in Criminal Proceedings
Section 114(1)(d) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 gave the criminal courts discretion to admit hearsay evidence in the interests of justice. The Law Commission envisaged that the courts would only...... ... also authority for the proposition that thehearsay evidence of a witness who cannot be identied is not admissibleunder s. 114(1)(d).Keywords ... protection scheme or the possibility of treating thewitness as a hostile witness and admitting the witness evidence under s.119 of the 2003 Act ... ...
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Courts of Summary Jurisdiction
... ... 218THEJOURNALOFCRIMINALLAWTheonly witness for the prosecution was a local authorityPublic Health Inspector ... Prosecuting Counsel then soughtto establishthatshe was a hostile witness by producing an inconsis-tentstatementmadeearlier by her ... ...
- In Defence of Vulnerable Witnesses: The Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999
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THE USE OF FULL COURTS IN THE APPELLATE PROCESS 1
... ... ahould be wholly unconcerned with financial rewards (witness the outcry over the resignation df Fisher J. to take up an ... 9 Chapman and Pidgley (1960) 44 Hostile witness Oliva (1965) 49 Cr.App.R. 298 Summing-up Attfield (1961) ... ...
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