Attorney General for Ceylon v Kumarasinghege Don John Perera
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 1953 |
| Court | Privy Council |
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52 cases
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Wo Yok Ling v Public Prosecutor
...whether the law as to grave and sudden provocation as laid down by the Privy Council in the Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) case of A-G v Perera [1953] AC 200 should be followed having regard to recent decisions in other jurisdictions. We declined because we considered that case binding on us in tha......
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People v O'Shea
...Bill, 1975 [1977] I.R. 129. 21 R. v. Bertrand (1867) L.R. 1 P.C. 520. 22 Attorney General for Ceylon v. Kumarasinghege Don John Perera [1953] A.C. 200. 23 Application of Zwann [1981] I.R. 395. 24 Kepner v. United States (1904) 195 U.S. 100. 25 Conroy v. The Attorney General [1965] I.R. 411.......
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R v Smith (Morgan James)
...bodily harm "arises from sudden passion involving loss of self-control by reason of provocation" perLord Goddard C.J. in Attorney-General for Ceylon v. Perera [1953] A.C. 200, 206. It is available to persons of normal mental capacity, and accordingly there is no burden of proof on the defe......
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Cases referred to in 1965
...83. 312 Astley Industrial Trust Ltd. v. Grimley (1963) 2 All E.R. 33, 40. .................... 313 Attorney-General of Ceylon v. Perera (1953) A C 200 ..................................... 211 Baide v. Adoki (1930) 10 N.L.R. 15. ....................................................................
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Injustice Perpetuated? The Contribution of the Court of Appeal
...in statutory interpretation do not always ameliorate a 31 Holmes v DPP [1946] AC 588, disapproved in Attorney-General for Ceylon v Perera [1953] AC 200; R v Martindale (1966) 50 Cr App R 32 Of course, there is a problem where an unmeritorious applicant takes the benefit of a transient state......
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Provocation: Acquittals provoke a rethink
...6 Act 24 of 1886 (C). EM Burchell and PMA Hunt South African Criminal Law and Procedure 2 ed (1983) Vol 1 307. 8 1958 (3) SA 7 (FC). 9 1953 AC 200 (PC). The Privy Council recognised that acts done by a man after he has lost control of himself may still be intended. In R v Tenganyika the cou......