Bullard v The Queen
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 1957 |
| Date | 1957 |
| Court | Privy Council |
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173 cases
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R v Coutts (Graham James)
...House in Mancini v DPP [1942] AC 1, 7-8. It was again cited with approval by Lord Tucker, giving the reasons of the Privy Council in Bullard v The Queen [1957] AC 635, 642, who held that it had "long been settled law that if on the evidence, whether of the prosecution or of the defence, th......
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R v Cambridge
...jury on the evidence in this case. 14 The line of authority goes back to Hopper (1915) 2 KB 431, Mancini v DPP (1942) 28 Cr App R 65, and Bullard (1957) 42 Cr App R 1. In Porrit (1961) 45 Cr App R 65, this court approved a passage from the opinion of the Privy Council in Bullard, delivered ......
- R v Rossiter
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Shonovia Thomas Appellant v The Queen Respondent
...correct in leaving the partial defence of provocation to the jury. Mancini v Director of Public Prosecutions [1942] AC 1 applied; Joseph Bullard v the Queen [1957] AC 635 applied; Kwaku Mensah v The King [1946] AC 83 applied; Tabeel Lewis v The State [2011] UKPC 15 applied. 3. Evidence ......
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7 books & journal articles
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Descent into Murder: Provocation's Stricture—The Prognosis for Women Who Kill Men Who Abuse Them
...Fazal Mohammed v The State [1990] 2 AC 320 at332.) There must be some evidence, but of what strength? In Bullard v R[1961] 3 All ER 470n, [1957] AC 635 the phrase used was, ‘any evidence. . . fit to be left to a jury’. It is true that in DPP v Camplin Lord Diplock usedthe phrase ‘however sl......
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Codifying the Law on Evidential Burdens
...example, evidence adducedby the prosecution in support of a charge of ‘murder’ may suggest a defence ofprovocation. Also see Bullard v R [1957] AC 635 at 642 and Palmer v R [1971] AC814 at 823.22 R v Lang and Deadman [2002] EWCA Crim 298 at [31], per Pitchford J.Codifying the Law on Evident......
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Anger and Fear as Justifiable Preludes for Loss of Self-Control
...judge the power to determinewhether he thinks there is any evidence from which a jury could85 R v Smith (Rocky) [2009] EWCA Crim 2461.86 [1957] AC 635.87 (1992) 95 Cr App R 326.88 [2003] EWCA Crim 3486.Anger and Fear as Justifiable Preludes for Loss of reasonably conclude that there was lo......
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The plea of accident in the criminal law
...judge must leave it to the jury: Hopper [1915] 2 K.B. 431; Porritt [1961] 3 All E.R. 643; Kwaku Mensah [1946] A.C. 83 (P.C.); Bullard [1957] A.C. 635 (P.C.); Rolle [1965] 1 W.L.R. 1341 (P.C.). 41 Mancini v.D.P.P. [1941] 3 All E.R. 272, 279. 42 D had later complained to the police that V sho......
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