Dunkley v The Queen

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1994
Year1994
Date1994
CourtPrivy Council

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31 cases
  • John Mitchell v The Queen
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 28 juin 1999
    ...like the present under consideration the approach to be followed is to be found in the judgment of the Board in Dunkley v. The Queen [1995] 1 A.C. 419 at page 428:- "In the first place where counsel appearing for a defendant on a capital charge seeks leave to withdraw during the course of ......
  • Hinds v Attorney General of Barbados and another
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 5 décembre 2001
    ...or render a hearing necessarily unfair. He relied on decisions of this Board in Robinson v The Queen [1985] AC 956 at 965-966 and Dunkley v The Queen [1995] 1 AC 419 at 429 and to similar rulings in other jurisdictions: Re Ewing and The Queen (1974) 49 DLR (3d) 619; R v Rowbotham 41 (1988......
  • Grant v State
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 16 janvier 2006
    ...of the Constitution was held by the Board in Robinson v The Queen [1985] AC 956 to be not an absolute right, a decision followed in Dunkley v The Queen [1995] 1 AC 419 and, more recently, in Jahree v The State [2005] UKPC 7, [2005] 1 WLR 19 Fifthly, it is clear that the English courts h......
  • Tan Chor Jin v Public Prosecutor
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 18 juillet 2008
    ...had occurred (cf the dissenting judgment of Lord Scarman and Lord Edmund-Davies (id at 969–974)). 62 In Errol Dunkley v The Queen [1995] 1 AC 419, Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle, delivering the judgment of the Privy Council, held (at 427) that “there [was] no absolute right to legal represent......
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4 books & journal articles
  • Administrative and Constitutional Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2008, December 2008
    • 1 décembre 2008
    ...Chor Jin’) at [59]. From a reading of three Privy Council decisions from Jamaica (Frank Robinson v R[1985] 1 AC 956; Errol Dunkley v R[1995] 1 AC 419 and Delroy Ricketts v R[1998] 1 WLR 1016) and the Singapore case of Balasundaram v PP[1996] 2 SLR 331 (discussed in Tan Chor Jin, at [58]), t......
  • Table of cases
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility. Second Edition
    • 15 juin 2006
    ...v. Bolduc), [1991] 1 S.C.R. 374, 78 D.L.R. (4th) 666, 124 N.R. 1, [1991] R.D.I. 239, 39 Q.A.C. 81................. 68 Dunkley v. R., [1995] 1 All E.R. 279 (P.C.)......................................................... 173 Edwards v. People of State of California, 314 U.S. 160 (1941).............
  • Termination of the Client-Lawyer Relationship
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Archive Ethics and Canadian Criminal Law
    • 26 août 2001
    ...client in the lurch by withdrawing in response to a clash with the trial judge, in a murder trial at that, see Dunkley v. R. (1994), [1995] 1 All E.R. 279 (P.C.) [Dunkley]. 24 See Swartz, above note 23 at 482. Termination of the Client-Lawyer Relationship 597 defence counsel. Accordingly, c......
  • Criminal Lawyers: Putting Up a Defence
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility. Second Edition
    • 15 juin 2006
    ...Dist. C.A. 1985). 15 Re Ontario (Crime Commission) , (1963), 37 D.L.R. (2d) 382 at 391 (Ont. C.A.), McLennan J.A. 16 Dunkley v. R. , [1995] 1 All E.R. 279 (P.C.). LEGAL ETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY 174 as to elicit truthful answers and thereby correct the false evidence. In summin......