R v Chapman

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1931
Date1931
CourtCourt of Appeal
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21 cases
  • Ho Sheng Yu Garreth v PP
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 30 January 2012
    ...after the application of those canons and I think the principle cited by the Court of Criminal Appeal in the case of R. v. Chapman [ [1931] 2 KB 606 at 609] fromMaxwell on The Interpretation of Statutes and applied in that case is applicable also here: 'Where an equivocal word or ambiguous ......
  • Chappell & Company Ltd v Nestlé Company Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 19 March 1958
    ...more rigidly if penal consequences were involved, L.C.C. v. Aylesbury Dairy, reported in 1898, 1 Queen's Benoh Division, at page 109, and Rex v. Chapman, reported in 1931, 2 King's Benoh Division, at page 609. 8 It was further contended that even if, as the learned Judge appears to have hel......
  • Hin Lin Yee And Another v Hksar
    • Hong Kong
    • Court of Final Appeal (Hong Kong)
    • 26 March 2010
    ...penalisation was expressed thus (at p.609) by Lord Hewart CJ when delivering the judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeal in R v Chapman [1931] 2 KB 606 “Much argument has taken place and may yet take place on the meaning of the words, ‘of twenty-three years of age’, but we have come to the......
  • Hinkson v Hinkson
    • Trinidad & Tobago
    • Court of Appeal (Trinidad and Tobago)
    • Invalid date
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  • ENLARGED PANELS IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF SINGAPORE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2019, December 2019
    • 1 December 2019
    ...R v Hudson [1912] 2 KB 464; Hunt v Richardson [1916] 2 KB 446; Oaten v Auty [1919] 2 KB 278; R v Norman [1924] 2 KB 315; R v Chapman [1931] 2 KB 606; King v King [1943] P 91; R v Turner [1944] KB 463; Young v Bristol Aeroplane Co Ltd [1944] KB 718; Bracegirdle v Oxley [1947] 1 KB 349; R v C......

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