Chan Kau v The Queen
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 1955 |
| Year | 1955 |
| Date | 1955 |
| Court | Privy Council |
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Court of Appeal
...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......
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Evidence 1
...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......
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The Police and the Law
...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. ......
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D.P.P. V. OBI
...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......