Lawrence v The King

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1933
Year1933
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  • Wong Hong Toy and Another v Public Prosecutor
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 28 April 1987
    ...at [67]. Commissioners of Customs and Excise v Menocal [1979] QB 46; (1979) 69 Cr App Rep 148; [1978] 3 All ER 961 (refd) Lawrence v R [1933] AC 699; [1933] All ER Rep 196 (distd) Mah Kah Yew v PP [1968-1970] SLR (R) 851; [1969-1971] SLR 441 (folld) PP v Wong Hong Toy [1985-1986] SLR (R) 12......
  • Minister for Justice v A.P.L.
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 17 June 2015
    ...General) v. Messitt [1972] 1 I.R. 204 where at p. 210 Kenny J. quoted with approval from the judgment of Lord Atkin in Lawrence v. R [1933] AC 699: 'It is an essential principle of our criminal law that the trial for an indictable offence has to be conducted in the presence of the accused;......
  • Moti v The Queen
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 7 December 2011
    ...4 All ER 817 at 843. 71 (2009) 235 FLR 320 at 333 [43]. 72 (1999) 200 CLR 485 at 514 [69]; [1999] HCA 65. 73 See Lawrence v The King [1933] AC 699 at 708; Athanassiadis v Government of Greece [1971] AC 282 at 294–296 (n); R v Jones (Robert) (No 2) [1972] 1 WLR 887 at 890–891; [1972] 2 All......
  • Chief Executive Officer of Customs v Labrador Liquor Wholesale Pty Ltd
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 5 September 2003
    ...this Act.’ 5 Sched 51, Item 4. 6Criminal Law, The General Part, 2nd ed (1961), §286. 7Thomas v The Queen (1960) 102 CLR 584 at 595. 8 [1933] AC 699 at 9 Section 3BB of the Crimes Act, added by the Application of Criminal Code Act, so provides. 10 Inserted by Sched 21 to the Application of C......
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  • Table of Cases
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Sasegbon's Laws of Nigeria. Volume 7: Part I Preliminary sections
    • 29 June 2016
    ...R v. Kanu (1949) 12 W.A.C.A., 488……………………….....................................................258, 510 R v. Lawrence (1933) A.C. 699 and Woolmington’s case (1935) A.C. 462…….............………585 R v. Layole (1935) 12 N.L.R 44 ……………...................................................................
  • Cases referred to in 1956
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Nigerian Supreme Court Cases. 1956 Preliminary Sections
    • 17 August 1988
    ...v. Phillip 18 N.L.R. 102 18 R. v Jonathan Duru 9 W.A.C.A. 33. 66 R. v Kano and Arisah 20 N.L.R. 32. W.A.C.A. No. 3711 66 R. v Lawrence (1933) A.C. 699. 43 R. v Sunday Ijoma and others 12 W.A.C.A. 220. 66 Rex v Holmes 31 C.A.R. 139. 2 Rex v Peter Aniogo, 9 W.A.C.A. 62. 57 Richardson v. Leask......
  • In the Irish Courts
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 38-2, April 1974
    • 1 April 1974
    ...ifhe is guilty of violentconductwith intent to make the trial impos-sible it is lawful to continue in his absence: Lawrence v.TheKing(1933, A.C.699).If, however, through illness, including mentalillness, he is incapable of understandingwhatis going on or isotherwise incapable of conducting ......

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