R v Berrada

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Date1991
Year1991

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32 cases
  • Jagdeo Singh v State of Trinidad and Tobago
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 3 August 2005
    ...than one defendant where one is of good character and one is not, virtually all the numerous decisions since Reg. v Berrada (Note) 91 Cr. App. R. 131 have reiterated that the first limb direction is necessary wherever the defendant has given evidence. This has been held to be so even when,......
  • Nigel Hunter and Others v R
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 16 April 2015
    ...conviction was quashed on grounds other than the judge's direction, namely the use made of the convictions at trial by the prosecution. 7 Berrada (1990) 91 Cr.App.R. 131 and Marr (1990) 90 Cr.App.R. 154 were appeals from the same trial judge. In both cases the judge failed to direct the j......
  • Dwayne White v R
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 1 March 2013
    ...first time. Instead of highlighting the points in the evidence upon which the defence ‘sought legitimately to rely’ (per Waterhouse J, in R v Berrada (1990) 91 Cr App R 131, 133), it was submitted, the judge had embarked on a line of questioning of the appellant which was unfair, ‘as it was......
  • Tinker v R
    • Bahamas
    • Court of Appeal (Bahamas)
    • 27 September 2010
    ...[1996] 1 Cr App R 207 CA., where certain passages of the summing up were criticized as being the ‘stuff of advocacy’. In R v. Berrada, 91 Cr App R 131, CA, Waterhouse J. giving the judgment of the court on an appeal against conviction for attempted rape, referred to the fact that the appel......
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