R v Butterwasser

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtCourt of Appeal
Year1948
Date1948

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18 cases
  • Thompson v The Queen
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • Invalid date
    ... ... 954C–D , 955D ) ... Mitchell v. The Queen [ 1998 ] 2 W.L.R. 839 , P.C. and dictum of Lord Goddard C.J. in Rex v. Butterwasser [ 1948 ] 1 K.B. 4 , 6, C.C.A. applied ... (4) That section 4 of the United Nations Declaration on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders Act 1984 did not require examination before trial of the defendant's allegations of physical ill-treatment by the police; and that ... ...
  • R v de Vere
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 16 June 1981
    ...when the defendant is being cross-examined and he himself is giving evidence. If he does not give evidence, it does not apply and R. v. Butterwasser is binding authority to that effect. 14 The result of that is that the learned Judge was wrong in coming to the conclusion that the calling of......
  • Gilbert v The Queen
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 27 March 2006
    ...must be raised by calling evidence or putting questions on that issue to witnesses for the prosecution: see per Lord Goddard CJ in Rex v Butterwasser [1948] 1 KB 4, 6. Their Lordships are of opinion that where the issue of good character is not raised by the defence in evidence, the judge ......
  • R v Becouarn
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 28 July 2005
    ...of the prosecution case were able to follow that course. Criticism of the state of the law, not least of the effect of the ruling in R v Butterwasser, and the degree of advantage which it conferred on defendants in criminal trials, mounted – in the Eleventh Report of the Criminal Law Revisi......
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