Attorney General v Hitchcock

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtExchequer
Year1847
Date1847

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16 cases
  • Gedeon v Commissioner of NSW Crime Commission
    • Australia
    • High Court (Australia)
    • 4 September 2008
    ...954. 144 [1999] 3 VR 618 . 145 (1999) 76 SASR 56 at 66 [48]–[49]. 146 Attorney-General v Hitchcock (1847) 1 Ex 91 at 105–106 per Rolfe B [ 154 ER 38 at 147 (1999) 76 SASR 56 at 72–73 [83]. 148 (1999) 76 SASR 56 at 72–73 [83]. 149 [1999] 3 VR 618 at 622 [13]. See also R v Pearce [1999] 3 VR ......
  • Nicholls v the Queen
    • Australia
    • High Court (Australia)
    • 3 February 2005
    ...[2002] 2 Qd R 400 at 416. See also Natta v Canham (1991) 32 FCR 282 at 300. 12 See, eg, Natta (1991) 32 FCR 282 at 298. 13 (1847) 1 Ex 91 [ 154 ER 38]. 14 (1847) 1 Ex 91 at 99 [ 154 ER 38 at 42]. 15Natta (1991) 32 FCR 282 at 295. 16Narkle v The Queen (2001) 23 WAR 468 at 479 per Murray J. 1......
  • Goldsmith v Sandilands
    • Australia
    • High Court (Australia)
    • 8 August 2002
    ...CLR 533 at 547 per Latham CJ. 17Thomas v David (1836) 7 Car & P 350 [ 173 ER 156]. 18Attorney-General v Hitchcock (1847) 1 Ex 91 at 100 [ 154 ER 38 at 42]; Piddington v Bennett and Wood Pty Ltd (1940) 63 CLR 533 at 19Toohey v Metropolitan Police Commissioner [1965] AC 595. 20R v Hemp (1833)......
  • DPP v Mullins & Nevin
    • Ireland
    • Court of Criminal Appeal
    • 22 November 2010
    ...(DPP) v Gannon [1997] 1 IR 40 and People (DPP) v McCarthy [2007] IECCA 64, [2008] 3 IR 1 followed - Attorney General v Hitchcock (1847) 1 EXCH 91; R v Bourke (1858) 8 Cox CC 2 considered - Criminal Procedure Act 1993 (No 40), ss 2 and 3 - Application dismissed (2008/27CPA - CCA - 22/11/20......
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4 books & journal articles
  • Table of cases
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Law of Evidence. Eighth Edition
    • 25 June 2020
    ...Adderly v Bremner, [1968] 1 OR 621 (HCJ) ............................................... 218, 220 AG v Hitchcock (1847), 154 ER 38 (Ex Ch) ............................................... 603, 605 AG v Radloff (1854), 10 Exch 84 (Ex Ch) .............................................................
  • Evidence About Credibility and Reliability
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Law of Evidence. Eighth Edition
    • 25 June 2020
    ...(Boston: Little Brown, 1961) s 1003. 49 R v Khan , 2017 ONCA 114 at para 64. 50 R v R(D) , [1996] 2 SCR 291. 51 AG v Hitchcock (1847), 154 ER 38 (Ex Ch) [ AG v Hitchcock ]. 52 Phipson on Evidence , 16th ed (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2005) at ss 12–47. See, e.g., R v Leblanc , 2018 JQ No 1201......
  • Dragged Through the Mud: Can Disincentives to Witness Participation in Criminal Trials be Removed?
    • New Zealand
    • Canterbury Law Review No. 21-2015, January 2015
    • 1 January 2015
    ...400 at [14]-[20]. 19 Law Commission Evidence Law: Character and Credibility (NZLC PP27, 1997) at 47-48. 20 Attorney-General v Hitchcock (1847) 1 Exch 91, 154 ER 38 at 99. 21 Wigmore, above n 1, at s 944. 22 R v McGlaughlin CA456/04, 8 September 2005 at [35]. 23 Evidence Act 2006, s 85(2). 1......
  • The Contextualised Court: Litigating ‘Culture’ in Canada
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 9-2, March 2005
    • 1 March 2005
    ...This is hardly140 Boyle and MacCrimmon, ‘To Serve the Cause of Justice’, above n. 18 at 62 and 82.141 Attorney General v Hitchcock (1847) 154 ER 38 (Exch. Ct) at 44–5.142 R v Sussex Justices, ex p. McCarthy [1924] 1 KB 256 at 259: ‘justice should not only be done, butshould manifestly and u......