Identification Evidence in UK Law

  • R v Turnbull
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 09 Julio 1976
    ... ... 2 Each of these appeals raises problems relating to evidence of visual identification in criminal cases. Such evidence can bring about ... ...
  • R v Goodway
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 29 Julio 1993
    ... ... and indeed undesirable to review all the involved and conflicting evidence in detail ... 5 The appellant and his wife, ... included blood on his clothes, but it also included identification evidence. Accordingly, the learned judge gave a Turnbull direction to ... ...
  • Benedetto v The Queen (No 2)
    • Privy Council
    • 20 Octubre 2003
    ... ... 36-38) (6) Further comments on Plante's evidence (paras 39-45) (7) The case against Benedetto ... Another example is identification evidence, where experience has shown that such evidence can have this ... ...
  • Morgan v Odhams Press Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 29 Junio 1971
    ... ... Respondents took the point at the conclusion of the Appellant's evidence at the trial. Owing to the somewhat elaborate judgments in the Court of ... itself to serve as a peg upon which to hang the alleged identification of the plaintiff as the person referred to—something, in other words, ... ...
  • Knupffer (Pauper) v London Express Newspaper, Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 03 Abril 1944
    ... ... Evidence was given at the trial that the Plaintiff had joined the Young Russia ... Judge went wrong was in treating evidence to support the identification in fact as governing the matter, when the first question is necessarily, ... ...
  • Mohammed-Holgate v Duke
    • House of Lords
    • 18 Octubre 1984
    ... ... advantage of examining either a transcript or a note of the oral evidence, came to the same conclusion. Your Lordships have enjoyed neither of these ... upon whether the jeweller would be able to identify on an identification parade, a customer whom he had seen only once, and that for a ... ...
  • R v Davis (Iain); R v Ellis; R v Gregory; R v Simms; R v Martin
    • House of Lords
    • 18 Junio 2008
    ... ... In evidence he had for the first time given details of an alibi, which he had called ... and by the same logic, it will be that the risk of physical identification of the witness must be eliminated in the interests of justice in the ... ...
  • Khuja (formerly known as PNM) v Times Newspapers Ltd and Others
    • Supreme Court
    • 19 Julio 2017
    ... ... 6 At the trial, evidence was given of the exploitation of six girls who at the relevant time were ... 's warning was endorsed by the House of Lords in In re S (Identification: Restrictions on Publication) [2005] 1 AC 593 , para 29 (Lord Steyn) ... ...
  • R v Forbes (Anthony Leroy)
    • House of Lords
    • 14 Diciembre 2000
    ... ... construction and application of the provisions relating to identification parades in Code D of the Codes of Practice issued under the Police and minal Evidence Act 1984. In its judgment in the present case the Court of Appeal departed ... ...
  • R v Humphrys
    • House of Lords
    • 19 Mayo 1976
    ... ... 2 The respondent gave evidence and swore that he did not own a motor cycle on the 18th July 1972, that ... the 18th July 1972 as he had given before and with the same identification of the respondent. This carries the necessary implication that the ... ...
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