Freemantle v The Queen

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date27 June 1994
Date27 June 1994
CourtPrivy Council
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45 cases
  • Raymond Hunter v R
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 19 May 2011
    ...directions altogether may nevertheless be upheld on appeal (see Scott v R [1989] 2 All ER 305, 314 - 15). A good example is provided by Freemantle v R [1994] 3 All ER 225, in which the Board held (in a judgment delivered by the late Sir Vincent Floissac CJ) that “exceptional circumstances” ......
  • Shand v The Queen
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 29 November 1995
  • Mervin Edward aka "Shark" Appellant v The Queen Respondent [ECSC]
    • St Lucia
    • Court of Appeal (Saint Lucia)
    • 29 January 2007
    ...convincing witness. However, as Sir Vincent Floissac pointed out in his judgment in the Privy Council in Michael Freemantle v The Queen [1994] 1 WLR 1437,6 the failure of a trial judge to give this warning would not preclude an appellate court from finding that on miscarriage of justice had......
  • Myrie (Aston)
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 28 October 2004
    ...warning prescribed in R v Turnbull [1976] 63 Cr. App. R. 132: (1977) 1 Q.B. 224. The reasons for giving that warning were re-stated in Freemantle v R [1995] 1 Cr. App. R 1. In Freemantle in the course of delivering the judgment of their Lordships'Board, after referring to a number of deci......
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