DPP (on Behalf of HM) v Christie (Criminal Appeal)

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CourtHouse of Lords
Judgment Date07 April 1914
Judgment citation (vLex)[1914] UKHL J0407-2
Date07 April 1914
Director of Public Prosecutions (On Behalf of His Majesty)
and
Christie
(Criminal Appeal).

[1914] UKHL J0407-2

House of Lords

1

After hearing Counsel, as well on Thursday the 26th, as Friday the 27th, days of February last, upon the Petition and Appeal of the Director of Public Prosecutions (on behalf of His Majesty), praying, that the matter of the Order set forth in the First Schedule thereto, namely, an Order of His Majesty's Court of Criminal Appeal, of the 27th day of October...

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    • House of Lords
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    • Sage International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 12-4, November 2008
    • 1 November 2008
    .... . . . . . . . . . . .291R vChenia [2002] EWCACrim 2345. . . . . . . . . 290R vChopra [2006] EWCACrim 2133 . . . . . . . . 137R vChristie [1914] AC545 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .280R vClark [1995] 2Cr App R425 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292R v Clark (No. 1) [2000] EWCA Crim 54. . . . ......
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    • Sage International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 12-4, November 2008
    • 1 November 2008
    ...is no general rule that there must be some, let alone prima facie, evidence of B beforeevidence of A is admissible. See e.g. RvChristie [1914] AC 545 at 559 at 564 (adoption of anaccusation); RvZardad [2007] EWCA Crim 279 at [24] (the making of a prior inconsistentstatement); RvRafiq [2005]......
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    • Sage International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 11-4, October 2007
    • 1 October 2007
    ...85, 202R v Charles (1892) Cox CC 499 . . . . . . . . . . . . .112R v Chen [2002] NSWCCA 174 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93R v Christie [1914] AC 545 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78R v Church of Scientology (No. 3) (1984) 47OR (2d) 90, HCJ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......
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    • DSC Publications Online Sasegbon's Laws of Nigeria. Volume 10. Part I Evidence 1
    • 30 June 2016
    ...he does not deny it are not of themselves sufficient to damnify him. The rule of law is stated by Lord Atkinson in Rex v. Christie (L.R. 1914 A.C. p. 545 at p. 554):- “The rule of law undoubtedly is that a statement made in the presence of an accused person, even upon an occasion which shou......
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