Chan Kau v The Queen
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Court | Privy Council |
| Judgment Date | 1955 |
| Date | 1955 |
| Year | 1955 |
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R v Lobell
... ... Chan Kau v. The Queen [1955] A.C. 206; [1955] 2 W.L.R. 192; [1955] 1 All E.R. 266 applied ... Regina v. Smith (1837) 8 C. & P. 160 disapproved ... ...
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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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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. ......
