Leach v The King
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1912 |
| Year | 1912 |
| Court | House of Lords |
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...The question raised is one of general importance and we shall deal with it on a broad basis. As a result of the decisions in R. v. Leach (1912) A.C. 305 and Hoskyn v. Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis (1978) 2 All E.R. 136, it is now clear that a wife is a competent, but not compell......
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People (Attorney General) v Kennedy
...25 Q. B. D. 357, at p. 360. (3) [1945] 1 K. B. 528. (4) [1940] I. R. 136. (5) [1923] A. C. 603. (6) 15 A. C. 506, at pp. 519, 520. (7) [1912] A. C. 305, at p. 310. (8) 7 Q. B. D. 198. (9) 19 Q. B. D. 629, at p. 638. (10) [1895] 2 Q. B. 264, at p. 271. (1) 2 C. & P. 585, at p. 589. (2) 20 Be......
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Male Persons Soliciting or Importuning for Immoral Purposes
...it was held that the wife 60THEPOLICEJOURNALwasnotacompetent witness againstthehusband.Butthespouse isnotacompellable witness(Leachv, R.(1912)A.C. 305; 76 J.P.201).Thereare possibilities of a wife being called fortheprosecutionin a case of this nature.Thewriter has inmindapederast, asyetunc......
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The Status of Spouses as Witnesses Before Courts- Martial
...Tha Scope at Privilege m the Law of Evidence, 16 Texas L. Rev. 441 (1938).6 8 R e ~ I. Lapwrtb [I9311 1 K.B.117; ci. Leach 1. Rex [1912] A.C. 305; Husbands and Wires as Witnesses at Common Law, 81 Just. P. 543 (1003): Evidence of Spouses in Criminal Law, 103 Law. .l. 63s (1053); 9 Hairbury,......
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In the Irish Courts
...available.Theappellant arguedthattheAct of 1924 is acompletecodeandthattheCourt cannot supply missing words incriminal cases (Leach v.R.,1912,A.C.305), withtheresultthatthere is to be found nostatutoryauthorityforsuch evidence.Fortherespondent,itdoesnotappeartohavebeen urgedthat"common sens......