Chung Chi Cheung v R

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CourtPrivy Council
Judgment Date02 December 1938
Docket NumberCase No. 87
Date02 December 1938

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97 cases
  • Yong Vui Kong v Public Prosecutor
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 14 May 2010
    ...to the decision in Nguyen, where this court held at [94], citing (inter alia) the Privy Council case of Chung Chi Cheung v The King [1939] AC 160 (“Chung Chi Cheung”), that in the event of a conflict between a rule of CIL and a domestic statute, the latter would prevail. From his other subm......
  • R v Secretary of State for the Home Department ex parte Thakrar
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 4 February 1974
    ... ... I would follow the words of Lord Atkin in Chung Chi Cheung 1939 A.C. 160 at page 167 : "It must be always remembered that, so far, at any rate, as the Courts of this country are ... ...
  • R v Outar (Roy), Jonathan Outar, Ralph Outar, Trevor Outar and Randal Titus
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 30 July 1999
    ...and status is not without difficulty. In urging that Erickson should be designated an accomplice defence counsel have referred us to Yip Chiu-cheung v. R [1994] 2 All E.R. 924 in which the headnote reads as follows: "The appellant met one N in Thailand and arranged that he would act as a c......
  • Nevsun Resources Ltd. v. Araya
    • Canada
    • Supreme Court (Canada)
    • 28 February 2020
    ...Corp. v. Central Bank of Nigeria, [1977] 1 Q.B. 529; Triquet v. Bath (1764), 3 Burr. 1478, 97 E.R. 936; Chung Chi Cheung v. The King, [1939] A.C. 160; The Ship “North” v. The King (1906), 37 S.C.R. 385; Reference as to Whether Members of the Military or Naval Forces of the United States of ......
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14 books & journal articles
  • Administrative and Constitutional Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2015, December 2015
    • 1 December 2015
    ...in Nguyen Tuong Van v Public Prosecutor[2005] 1 SLR(R) 103 at [94] had affirmed Lord Atkin's statement in Chung Chi Keung v The King[1939] AC 160 at 167–168 where CIL norms would be incorporated into domestic law ‘so far as it is not inconsistent with rules enacted by statutes or finally de......
  • Admissibility in Criminal Proceedings of Third Party and Real Evidence Obtained by Methods Prohibited by UNCAT
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 10-1, February 2006
    • 1 February 2006
    ...A v Secretary of State (No. 2) [2004] EWCA Civ 1123, [2005] 1 WLR 414 at [414], [463].235 As at 19 October 2005.236 Chung Chi Cheung v R [1939] 1 AC 160, 168; A v Secretar y of State (No. 2) [2004] EWCA Civ 1123,[2005] 1 WLR 414 at [119].237 Compare Re McKerr [2004] UKHL 12 at [54], Hutchin......
  • Decisions of the extinct Appellate Committee of the House of Lords will continue to resonate in South African administrative, constitutional and international law
    • South Africa
    • Sabinet Southern African Public Law No. 28-2, January 2013
    • 1 January 2013
    ...ld that the answe r lay in whethe r theUnite d King dom was b ound by t hese res olutio ns by virtue of artic le 25 of the U NCha rter.281939 AC 160, 167.141981 2 Lloyd’s Rep 367, 371; 1983 1 AC 244 (HL).151997 QB 529, 554.162007 1 AC 136.17This decision has not been welcomed unanimously. S......
  • Administrative and Constitutional Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2010, December 2010
    • 1 December 2010
    ...it was not inconsistent with existing statutes or judicial declarations of the apex court, as was the position in Chung Chi Cheung v R [1939] AC 160 (‘Chung’), a proposition previously accepted in Nguyen Tuong Van v Public Prosecutor [2005] 1 SLR(R) 103 (‘Nguyen’) at [94]. Following Chung, ......
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