Lam Chi-ming v The Queen

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1989
Date1989
Year1989
CourtPrivy Council
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89 cases
  • R v Mushtaq (Ashfaq Ahmed)
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 21 April 2005
    ...or improper pressure in order to extract a confession: see Wong Kam-ming v The Queen [1980] AC 247, 261 and Lam Chi-ming v The Queen [1991] 2 AC 212, 220 8 These two reasons also underlie the decision of the European Court of Human Rights in Saunders v The United Kingdom [1996] 23 EHRR 31......
  • Maycock et Al v Commissioner of Police
    • Bahamas
    • Supreme Court (Bahamas)
    • 28 April 1995
    ...to all admissible evidence except confessions and certain evidence produced by confessions (as to which see Lam Chi-Ming v. The Queen [1991] 2 A.C. 212). The abuse of process which brings into play the discretion to stay proceedings arises from wrongful conduct by the executive in an intern......
  • Ferreira v Levin NO and Others; Vryenhoek and Others v Powell NO and Others
    • South Africa
    • Invalid date
    ...697; 61 CCC (3rd) 30) (ref) R v Kuruma Son of Kaniu [1985] AC 197 (PC) ([1985] 1 All ER 236) R v Kuyper 1915 TPD 308 R v Lam Chi-Ming [1991] 2 AC 212 (PC) ([1991] 3 All ER 172) R v Lyons (1987) 44 DLR (4th) 193 J R v McDonough (1989) 40 CRR 151 1996 (1) SA p994 A R v Morgentaler, Smoling an......
  • Bishopsgate Investment Management Ltd v Maxwell; Cooper v Maxwell; Mirror Group Newspapers Plc v Maxwell
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 11 February 1993
    ...away from the subject, it must be done expressly, by a clear and unequivocal enactment". 27Much more recently Lord Griffiths in Lam Chi-Ming v. The Queen [1991] 2 A.C. 212 at 222C–D refers to the privilege against self-incrimination as deep-rooted in English 28Also, in Rank Film Distributo......
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7 books & journal articles
  • Best evidence or best interests? What does the case law say about the function of criminal cross-examination?
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 20-3, July 2016
    • 1 July 2016
    ...RvMushtaq [2005] 1 WLR 1513 (HL); Ibrahim vThe King [1914] AC 599 at 609–610; RvPrager [1972] 1 WLR 260 at 266;Lam Chi-ming vThe Queen [1991] 2 AC 212 at 220, per Lord Griffiths; Saunders vUnited Kingdom (1996) 23 EHRR 313 at[68]; Similarly in New Zealand a police interrogation is oppressiv......
  • THE CONCEPT OF VOLUNTARINESS IN THE LAW OF CONFESSIONS
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2005, December 2005
    • 1 December 2005
    ...admitted at his trial. 26 UK, Eleventh Report of the Criminal Law Revision Committee Evidence (General) (Cmnd 4991, 1972) at para 56. 27 [1991] 2 AC 212. 28 [1783] 1 Leach 263; 168 ER 234 (“Warickshall”) at 235. 29 The King v Lambe (1791) 2 Leach 554; 168 ER 379. Confessions were described ......
  • Self‐incrimination: Recent Developments
    • United Kingdom
    • Emerald Journal of Financial Crime No. 4-1, March 1996
    • 1 March 1996
    ...Rights will be successful. The concept of the Chancellor's foot has taken root in Luxembourg. REFERENCES (1) Lam Chi-ming v The Queen [1991] 2 AC 212 at 222 (PC) (per Lord Griffiths). (2) [1993] AC 1 at 30. (3) Per Mason CJ and Toohey J in Environment Protection Authority v Caltex Refining ......
  • Bigger fish to fry
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 19-2, April 2015
    • 1 April 2015
    ...for instance RvMushtaq [2005] 1 WLR 1513 (HL); Ibrahim vThe King [1914] AC 599, 609–610; RvPrager [1972] 1WLR 260, 266; Lam Chi-ming vR[1991] 2 AC 212, 220; Procurator Fiscal vBrown (Scotland) [2000] UKPC D3 (5December 2000); Saunders vUnited Kingdom (1996) 23 EHRR 313 at [68]. See also in ......
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