R v Bailey (Note)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1961
Date1961
CourtCourt of Criminal Appeal
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24 cases
  • R v Berry (Linton)
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 30 July 1999
    ... ... The Court of Appeal, relying on a dictum of the said Court in R v. Michael Bailey SCCA No. 141/89 (unreported) delivered 31st. January, 1991 (per Carey, J.A.) held that "in cases such as this" the jury should have been told that, ... ...
  • R v Cotter and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 10 May 2002
    ...deal with the exposing of the individuals as to the risk of arrest, imprisonment pending trial and possible wrongful conviction. See also R �v- Bailey [1956] NI15 and Withers �v- DPP [1975] AC page 842 HL." 20 In Blackstone 2002 at page 658 the only relevant example is: "(g) Making false al......
  • R v Rowell
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 3 June 1977
    ...been indictable as a common law misdemeanour although it has been given different labels at different times. He relied in particular on R. v. Bailey (1956) Northern Ireland Law Reports 15, a case in the Court of Criminal Appeal for Northern Ireland. 16 The answer, in our judgment, must depe......
  • R v Rafique ; R v Sajid ; R v Rajah
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 7 April 1993
    ... ... Dilhorne's approval in Withers and others -v DPP 1975 60 CAR 85 at page 91 of the approach to this question of Lord MacDermott CJ in ( Bailey 1956 NILR 15 ). Lord Dilhorne stated: "… in this connection in my opinion the approach of Lord MacDermott in this case is both ... ...
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2 books & journal articles
  • Criminal Procedure, Evidence and Sentencing
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2001, December 2001
    • 1 December 2001
    ...opinion and substitute it with his own, the court referred to the decision of the English Court of Criminal Appeal in R v Bailey(1978) 66 Cr App R 31. It was decided in that case that while juries are not bound by what the medical witnesses say, they must act on evidence. If there are no fa......
  • Diminished responsibility: Jury verdicts and ‘uncontradicted’ psychiatric evidence
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 79-1, February 2015
    • 1 February 2015
    ...17 such case since 1957. The present case is similar to the decisions in R v Matheson [1958] 1 WLR 474, Rv Bailey [1961] Crim LR 828; (1978) 66 Cr App R 31 and R v Pearce (2000; unreported). In the firstcase, Albert Matheson, 52, killed a 15-year-old boy by hitting him over the head with a ......

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