Dawkins v Lord Rokeby

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1865
Year1865
CourtExchequer
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70 cases
  • Stanton and Another v Callaghan and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 8 July 1998
    ...against a witness upon evidence given before any court or tribunal constituted according to law". Kelly CB in Dawkins v Lord Rokeby [1873] LR 8 QB 255, at 265. "As to the immunity of a witness for evidence given in a Court of justice, it is too late to argue that as if it were doubtful. By ......
  • CLG and Others (Claimants/Appellants) v Chief Constable of Merseyside Police (Defendant Respondent)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 28 July 2015
    ...them in the ordinary course of the proceedings were said or done falsely and maliciously and without reasonable and probable cause: Dawkins v Lord Rokeby (1873) LR 8 QB 255, 264, per Kelly CB. The immunity extends also to claims made against witnesses for things said or done by them in the ......
  • Singh v Reading Borough Council and another
    • United Kingdom
    • Employment Appeal Tribunal
    • Invalid date
    ... ... [ 2001 ] 1 AC 435 ; [ 2000 ] 3 WLR 747 ; [ 2000 ] 4 All ER 193 , HL(E) Dawkins v Lord Rokeby ( 1873 ) LR 8 QB 255 Heath v Comr of Police of the Metropolis [2004] EWCA Civ ... ...
  • R (Howard) v Official Receiver
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 28 June 2013
    ...an authorised inquiry which, though not before a court of justice, is before a tribunal which has similar attributes. In the case of Dawkins v Lord Rokeby, L.R. 8 Q.B. 255 the doctrine was extended to a military court of inquiry. It was so extended on the ground that the case was one of au......
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3 books & journal articles
  • Subject Index
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 12-4, November 2008
    • 1 November 2008
    .... . . . . . . 147Daubert v Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc.125 LEd 2d 469(1993) . . . . . . . . . . . .39, 40, 47Dawkins vLord Rokeby (1873)LR 8 QB255 . . 104Dawkins vLord Rokeby (1875)LR 7 HL744 . . 101Delalić(‘Čelebići’) (Case No. IT-96-21) (Decisionon Prosecution Motion for Admission of ......
  • Should advocates' immunity continue?
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 28 No. 1, April - April 2004
    • 1 April 2004
    ...v The Queen (1993) 177 CLR 574, 581-3 (Deane and Dawson JJ), following R v Skinner (1772) Lofft 54; 98 ER 529; Dawkins v Lord Rokeby (1873) LR 8 QB 255. The proposition is, however, qualified by a number of exceptions related to substantive administration of justice offences such as perjury......
  • Legal Remedies for the Negligent Expert
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 12-2, April 2008
    • 1 April 2008
    ...Hodgkinson and James, above n. 18 at 407. This book went topress shortly after Meadow (CA) (ibid.at viii).47 Dawkins vLord Rokeby (1873) LR 8 QB 255 at 264, Kelly CB, approved in Darker vChief Constable of theWest Midlands Police [2001] 1 AC 435 at 464, per Lord Hutton. In Meadow (CA) at [1......

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