Chan Kau v The Queen

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1955
Year1955
Date1955
CourtPrivy Council

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42 cases
4 books & journal articles
  • Court of Appeal
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 71-2, April 2007
    • 1 April 2007
    ...Rv Dickens[2005] EWCA Crim 2017). If the issue is left to the jury, the prosecutionmust rebut it beyond reasonable doubt (Chan Kau v R[1955] AC 206; Rv Lobell [1957] 1 QB 547; Palmer v R[1971] AC 814; R v Abraham[1973]3 All ER 694). Lord Griff‌iths explained why this burden was on theprosec......
  • Evidence 1
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Sasegbon's Laws of Nigeria. Volume 10. Part I Evidence 1
    • 30 June 2016
    ...conveyed by the passage cited. The position is similar to that considered by the Judicial Committee in Chan Kau v. The Queen , (1955) A.C. 206, with this distinction that in the present case, on the view most favourable to the appellant, a verdict of acquittal would have been justified. The......
  • The Police and the Law
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles No. 28-2, April 1955
    • 1 April 1955
    ...which isnotstrictly adefence."Itis unfortunate", say the Judicial CommitteeofthePrivy Council in Chan Kau v. The Queen (1955, 2 W.L.R. 192),"thatin Archbold's Criminal Pleading, EvidenceandPractice, 33rd ed.,at page 942, a passage isquotedfrom the summing up in the caseof R. v. Smith (8 C. ......
  • D.P.P. V. OBI
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Nigerian Supreme Court Cases. 1961 Cases reported in 1961
    • 11 November 2022
    ...The position is similar to that considered by the Judicial Committee in Chan Kau v. The Queen, (1955) A.C. 206, with this distinction that in the present case, on the view most favourable to the appellant, a verdict of acquittal would have been justified. The proper direction in a case of t......