Kwaku Mensah v The King

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1946
Year1946
Date1946
CourtPrivy Council
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  • Harun v PP
    • Malaysia
    • Federal Court (Malaysia)
    • Invalid date
  • Shonovia Thomas Appellant v The Queen Respondent
    • British Virgin Islands
    • Court of Appeal (British Virgin Islands)
    • 27 August 2012
    ...to the jury. Mancini v Director of Public Prosecutions [1942] AC 1 applied; Joseph Bullard v the Queen [1957] AC 635 applied; Kwaku Mensah v The King [1946] AC 83 applied; Tabeel Lewis v The State [2011] UKPC 15 applied. 3. Evidence of provocation and the loss of self-control are two cl......
  • Dick et Al v R
    • Guyana
    • Court of Appeal (Guyana)
    • 8 May 1985
    ...accused to testify to loss of self-control is not fatal to his case. R. v. Hopper [1914-1915] All E.R. Rep. 914, Kwaku Mensah v. Regem [1946] A.C. 83, Bullard v. Reginam [1961] 3 All E.R. 470n and R v. Porritt [1961] 3 All E.R. 463 were all cited as authorities for that. These were all case......
  • R. v. Cinous (J.), (2002) 285 N.R. 1 (SCC)
    • Canada
    • Canada (Federal) Supreme Court (Canada)
    • 21 March 2002
    ...v. Louison, [1975] 6 W.W.R. 289; 26 N.R. 4 (Sask. C.A.), affd. [1979] 1 S.C.R. 100; 26 N.R. 1, refd to. [para. 149]. R. v. Kwaku Mensah, [1946] A.C. 83 (P.C.), refd to. [para. R. v. Porritt, [1961] 1 W.L.R. 1372 (C.C.A.), refd to. [para. 150]. R. v. Leary, [1978] 1 S.C.R. 29; 13 N.R. 592, r......
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  • Searching for appropriate criminal evidence laws in the South Pacific
    • United Kingdom
    • International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 21-3, July 2017
    • 1 July 2017
    ...Court, Nauru, Crulci J, 5 August 2015), available via www.paclii.org at [2015] NRSC 1.70. [1970–1979] WSLR 105.71. Kwaku Mensah vThe King [1946] AC 83.236 The International Journal of Evidence & Proof approach rather than on its own prerogative to develop the law to accord with the circumst......

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