Unconstitutionally Obtained Evidence in UK Law

  • National Westminster Bank Plc v Spectrum Plus Ltd and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 30 June 2005
    ... ... amounts paid by way of taxes unconstitutionally imposed began with the first year in which they ... It opened an account with the bank, obtained an overdraft facility of £250,000 and, on 30 ... There is no evidence that any instructions regarding Spectrum's ... ...
  • Gur Corporation v Trust Bank of Africa Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 July 1986
    ... ... regimes which come to power unconstitutionally in the light of our assessment of whether they ... Bank and the Ciskei must rely on other evidence for the proposition that South Africa still ... is indistinguishable from that which obtained in the case of the G.D.R. and its government at ... ...
  • The “Maduro Board” of the Central Bank of Venezuela v The “Guaidó Board” of the Central Bank of Venezuela
    • Supreme Court
    • 20 December 2021
    ... ... The Maduro Board then sought and obtained permission to appeal (from Hickinbottom LJ) ... regimes which come to power unconstitutionally in the light of our assessment of whether they ... to have been treated as a question of evidence. Similarly, in The Charkieh (1873) LR 4 A & E ... ...
  • Kuwait Airways Corporation v Iraqi Airways Company (Nos 4 & 5)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 March 2002
    ... ... He then heard oral evidence on two days in December 1991 and on one day in ... 157 Mr Saffi had obtained informal permission to station a few IAC aircraft ... regimes which come to power unconstitutionally in the light of our assessment of whether they ... ...
  • CF v The Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 12 April 2013
    ... ... implicit in the scheme that if there is evidence that justifies the bringing of a criminal charge, ... as to whether the evidence has been obtained by torture or not. (See Lord Bingham a t ... a new regime comes to power unconstitutionally the attitude of Her Majesty's Government on the ... ...
  • Dr Ali Mahmoud Hassan Mohamed v Mr Abdulmagid Breish
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 15 May 2020
    ... ... The parties adduced substantial expert evidence of Libyan law for the purposes of resolution of ... of the means by which its power has been obtained ... In fact I rather think a de jure government in ... because it acquired power unconstitutionally or otherwise than in accordance with local law ... ...
  • Kuwait Airways Corporation v Iraqi Airways Company (Nos 4 & 5)
    • House of Lords
    • 16 May 2002
    ... ... its activities in this period, IAC had obtained the judgment of the House by fraud. Evidence of ... ...
  • R (Elias) v Secretary of State for Defence
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 10 October 2006
    ... ... The Secretary of State's evidence in the ABCI case describing the rationale for ... of the birth link criteria were obtained by the Parliamentary Commissioner which had not ... dissuade the Crown from acting unconstitutionally by an award of exemplary damages ... 253 ... ...
  • John v Rees
    • Chancery Division
    ... ... or association, and since there was some evidence that certain rules of the Labour Party had for ... no suggestion that he ever sought or obtained the sanction of the meeting to his actions ... ...
  • Mustafa Kamel Mustafa (otherwise Abu Hamza) v Government of the United States of America and another
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 20 June 2008
    ... ... , it is founded in whole or in part on evidence obtained directly or indirectly by torture or ill ... it found evidence to have been unconstitutionally coerced. Mr Maloy does not refer to this ... ...
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