Judges Rules in UK Law

  • R v Prager
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 10 Noviembre 1971
    ... ... Craig cautioned Prager in accordance with Rule II of the Judges' Rules, 1964, and it is to be observed that when the Lord Chief Justice ... ...
  • Connelly v DPP
    • House of Lords
    • 21 Abril 1964
    ... ... friend, Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest, show that many generations of judges have seen nothing unfair in holding that the plea of autrefois acquit ... the centuries: some of them, indeed, find their expression in the rules governing the pleas of autrefois acquit and autrefois convict and ... ...
  • R v Sang (on Appeal from HM Court of Appeal (Criminal Division))
    • House of Lords
    • 25 Julio 1979
    ... ... from impressive sources which, on the face of them, suggest that judges have a very wide discretion in criminal cases to exclude evidence tendered ... the judge always has a discretion to disallow evidence if the strict rules of admissibility would operate unfairly against the accused. This was ... ...
  • DPP v Ping Lin
    • House of Lords
    • 29 Julio 1975
    ... ... The judiciary were therefore compelled to devise artificial rules designed to protect him against dangers now avoided by other and more ... , in too legalistic and casuistical a spirit, so as to form, as the judges in Northam (1967) 52 Cr. App. R.97 expressed themselves to be ... ...
  • Broome v Cassell & Company Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 23 Febrero 1972
    ... ... to say that it was "unworkable", and, in the meantime, therefore, "judges should direct juries in accordance with the Law as it was understood ... their affairs, as well as a basis for orderly development of legal rules. Their Lordships nevertheless recognise that too rigid adherence ... ...
  • Investors Compensation Scheme Ltd v West Bromwich Building Society
    • House of Lords
    • 19 Junio 1997
    ... ... On the first occasion I described the Rules made by the Securities and Investment Board under section 54(6) of the Act ... rules are addressed consists of ordinary working journalists, not judges or lawyers versed in the semantic technicalities of statutory ... ...
  • Siskina (Owners of cargo lately laden on board) v Distos Compania Naviera S.A.
    • House of Lords
    • 26 Octubre 1977
    ... ... These are now to be found in Order 11 of the Rules of the Supreme Court which have statutory force by virtue of section 99 ... that even if the Rules of Court do not now provide for it, the judges ought to be bold enough themselves to extend the jurisdiction of the High ... ...
  • Practice Note (Judges' Rules)
    • Court of Appeal
  • Lim Poh Choo v Camden and Islington Area Health Authority
    • House of Lords
    • 21 Junio 1979
    ... ... The Master of the Rolls believes it can be done by the judges, whereas I would suggest to your Lordships that such a reappraisal calls ... , to think—or at least to hope—that there exists machinery in the rules of the Supreme Court which may be adapted to enable an award of damages in ... ...
  • Imerman v Tchenguiz and Others
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 29 Julio 2010
    ... ... on the part of their clients in accordance with the Hildebrand “rules” was permissible and would thus in my view disable the family courts ... 34 Thus, judges deciding such applications have a far greater control than they have under ... ...
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