R v B (Kenneth James)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeLORD JUSTICE DYSON
Judgment Date23 October 2003
Neutral Citation[2003] EWCA Crim 3080
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Docket Number1No. 2002/03715/B3
Date23 October 2003

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4 cases
  • R v Beckles (Keith Anderson)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 19 d5 Maio d5 2006
    ...from this section." 6 Section 34 was recently, justifiably, described by Dyson L.J. in R. v. B. (K. J.) The Times, December 15, 2003; [2003] EWCA Crim 3080, as "a notorious minefield" [paragraph 20 of transcript]. In R v Brizzalari, The Times, March 3, 2004; [2004] EWCA Crim 310, the Cour......
  • R v Robert Webber, Paul Ashton, Paul Steven Lyons
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 22 d4 Janeiro d4 2004
    ...is no room for the inference if that matter is agreed to be true. This approach was followed by the Court of Appeal, correctly, in R v Kenneth James B ( 23 October 2003, 29 A section 34 direction given by the trial judge in R v Hearne and Coleman (Court of Appeal, 4 May 2000, unreported) wa......
  • R v John Austin Chivers
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 12 d2 Abril d2 2011
    ...the inference if that matter is agreed to be true. This approach was followed by the Court of Appeal correctly in R v Kenneth Jones [2003] EWCA Crim 3080." 44 In his conclusion, Lord Bingham said, at paragraph 33: "Since the object of section 34 is to bring the law back into line with commo......
  • R v Gareth Davies and Matthew Jonathan Dove
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 26 d2 Julho d2 2005
    ...of the Judge's ruling that such evidence be admitted was one of prejudice to Dove or as indicating propensity on his part: Mr Pardoe citing R v B 1997 2 Cr. App Rep 88. Further, if it was the case that the evidence relating to the Beretta gun should not have been admitted then, so it was su......
3 books & journal articles
  • Exemplum Habemus: Reflections on the Judicial Studies Board's Specimen Directions
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 70-1, February 2006
    • 1 d3 Fevereiro d3 2006
    ...precisely to follow adirection recommended by the Judicial Studies Board. But Judicial Studies51 [2002] EWCA Crim 2802 at [25]. In B [2003] EWCA Crim 3080 at [17], DysonLJ stressed that, had the trial judge attempted to employ the appropriatespecimen direction instead of referring airily to......
  • The challenge of the ECHR
    • Ireland
    • Irish Judicial Studies Journal No. 2-7, July 2007
    • 1 d0 Julho d0 2007
    ...E.H.R.R. 162. 24 Murray v. United Kingdom (1996) 22 E.H.R.R. 29. 25 Telfner v. Austria (2002) 34 E.H.R.R. 207. 26 R. v. B (K. J.) [2003] E.W.C.A. Crim. 3080. 2007] The Challenge of the ECHR 91 his/her solicitor’s advice but because he or she had no satisfactory evidence to give. These and s......
  • Tinkering with the right to silence: the Evidence Amendment (Evidence of Silence) Act 2013 (NSW).
    • Australia
    • University of Western Sydney Law Review No. 17, January 2013
    • 1 d2 Janeiro d2 2013
    ...145. (58) Birch, above n 57, 787. (59) Ibid 788. (60) Leng, above n 43,241. (61) Ibid 243. (62) Hamer et al, above n 25,9-10. (63) [2003] EWCA Crim 3080 (23 October 2003) [20] (Dyson (64) [2004] EWCA Crim 310 (19 February 2004) [57]. (65) Ibid. (66) All major stakeholders within the NSW cri......

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