Dumbell v Roberts

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1944
Year1944
CourtCourt of Appeal
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202 cases
  • Daud; Mohamed Lajan
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 1 January 1963
  • Rookes v Barnard
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 21 January 1964
    ...Bowen L.J. in Whitham v. Kershaw (1885) 16 Q.B.D. 613 at 618 and in Finlay v. Chirney (1888) 20 Q.B.D. 494 at 504 and by Scott L.J. in Dumbell v. Roberts [1944] 1 All E.R., 326, at 330. McCardie J. in Butterworth v. Butterworth [1920] p. 126 also obiter, expounded the principle. There are......
  • R (Raissi) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 14 February 2008
  • Hussien v Chong Fook Kam
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • Invalid date
    ... ... Dumbell v. Roberts [ 1944 ] 1 All E.R. 326 , 329, C.A. and McArdle v. Egan ( 1934 ) 150 L.T. 412 , C.A. approved ... (3) That, accepting ... ...
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4 books & journal articles
  • Court of Appeal
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 71-2, April 2007
    • 1 April 2007
    ...to hold that the appellants had the burden ofThe Journal of Criminal Law120 proof with regards to self-defence (Dumbell v Roberts [1944] 1 All ER 326;Cresswell v Sirl [1948] 1 KB 241; Dallison v Caffery [1965] 1 QB 348).None of these cases actually concerned self-defence. However, in Cress-......
  • Table of cases
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Detention and Arrest. Second Edition
    • 22 June 2017
    ...255 Downing v Capel (1867), LR 2 CP 461 .............................................................. 253 Dumbell v Roberts, [1944] 1 All ER 326 (CA) ....................................................251 Eccles v Bourque (1974), [1975] 2 SCR 739, 50 DLR (3d) 753, [1974] SCJ No 123.............
  • Unchecked power: the constitutional regulation of arrest reconsidered.
    • Canada
    • McGill Law Journal Vol. 48 No. 2, June 2003
    • 1 June 2003
    ...R. v. Storrey, [1990] 1 S.C.R. 241 at 249-51, 53 C.C.C. (3d) 316 [Storrey cited to S.C.R.], quoting with approval Dumbell v. Roberts, [1944] 1 All E.R. 326 at 329 (C.A.) (4) See Bruce P. Archibald, "The Law of Arrest" in Vincent M. Del Buono, ed., Criminal Procedure in Canada: Studies (Toro......
  • Reasonable and Probable Grounds
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Understanding Section 8: Search, Seizure, and the Canadian Constitution
    • 17 June 2005
    ...have reasonable and probable grounds for making an arrest and the need to limit its scope was well expressed in Dumbell v. Roberts , [1944] 1 All E.R. 326 (C.A.), wherein Scott L.J. stated at p. 329: That [reasonable grounds] requirement is very limited. The police are not called on before ......

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