Nembhard v The Queen

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1981
Date1981
Year1981
CourtPrivy Council
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14 cases
  • Reid (Dalton) v R
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 21 November 2008
    ...on the wholly unusual circumstances and features of the identification evidence. In this regard the approach of Smith CJ as trial judge in Nembhard v R [1982] 1 All ER 183, which attracted the specific approval of the Privy Council, still merits careful attention. 8 The alleged dying decla......
  • Walker v The Queen
    • Grenada
    • Court of Appeal (Grenada)
    • 26 October 1984
    ...and, even more so, if we try and adopt the idea that a failure to copy Turnbull to the letter must result in an acquittal.” 84 In Nembhard v. The Queen [1981] 1 W.L.R. 1515, an appeal the Court of Appeal of Jamaica, the Privy Council said (at page 1520) : “Turnbull does not purport to chang......
  • Mills and Others v The Queen
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 1 March 1995
  • R v Raymond Lawson
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 7 May 1998
    ...prospect of divine judgment would not dare to dissemble: R v Woodcock (1789) 1 Leach 500, 502; 168 ER 352; R v Osman (1881) 15 Cox CC 1; Nembhard v R (1981) 74 Cr App R 144, 146; [1981] 1 WlR 1515, 1518. It is plain on high authority that a trial judge may only admit evidence of Caesar's s......
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