R v Donnelly

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1998
Date1998
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
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6 cases
  • The People (at the suit of the DPP) v Brian Shaughnessey
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 23 March 2021
    ...Court of Appeal has on occasion sought to prescribe particular tests to be applied in alleged incompetence cases. Thus, in Donnelly [1998] Crim.L.R. 131, it was said that nothing less than flagrant incompetence would do; in Ullah [2000] 1 Cr. App. R. 351, it was said that a proper and conv......
  • R v Ullah
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 14 October 1999
    ...went on: "We accept counsel's explanation. Mr Fulford, [who was counsel for the appellant] consistently with the latest case on this issue R v Donnelly [1998] Crim LR 131, characterised this as 'flagrant incompetence', alternatively that a decision not to adduce this evidence was 'in defia......
  • Mak Kam Chuen v Hksar
    • Hong Kong
    • Court of Final Appeal (Hong Kong)
    • 13 December 2001
    ...as fragrant incompetence which can form the basis of such a challenge. See R v Clinton (1993) 97 Cr. App. R. 320; R v Donnelly [1998] Crim. L.R. 131; R v Naveed Ullah [2000] 1 Cr. App. R. 9. We are not satisfied that it is reasonably arguable that this is such a case. If two senior counsel,......
  • R v Carl Emerson Frederick
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 24 October 2003
    ...its impact on the trial has, in the last decade, seen something of a shift, compares, for example, Clinton 97 Cr App R(S) 32O, Donnelly [1998] Crim LR 131, Ullah [2001] Cr App R 351 and Boodram v The State [2002] 1 Cr App R 1O3. But, as it seems to us, whatever test is applied to the conduc......
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