R v Fisher

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeTHE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE,MR. JUSTICE MELFORD STEVENSON
Judgment Date18 January 1965
Judgment citation (vLex)[1965] EWCA Crim J0118-1
CourtCourt of Criminal Appeal
Docket NumberNo. 2155/64
Date18 January 1965

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4 cases
  • Legister (Anthony) and Lincoln Fray v R
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 20 December 2000
    ...to the jury what is not corroboration as for example, a complaint made by the complainant." 5See also R. v Anslow [1962] Crim. L.R 101; R. v Fisher [1965] 1 All E.R 677. 6 In this case the learned trial judge did direct the jury that the recent complaint was not corroboration. Eric James v......
  • Maharaj v R
    • Trinidad & Tobago
    • Court of Appeal (Trinidad and Tobago)
    • Invalid date
  • Maharaj v R
    • Trinidad & Tobago
    • Court of Appeal (Trinidad and Tobago)
    • 6 April 1968
    ...no necessity for him to tell them what corroboration meant. Actually, the material portion of the headnote to the case as reported in (1965) 1 All E.R. 677 is in almost identical terms with the text of the judgment and is as follows:– “As the summing-up proceeded on the basis that there wa......
  • Amgbah and Others v The Law Society
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 6 May 2010
    ...position of a judge addressing a jury where it is usually essential to direct the jury that they must consider each charge separately: see R v. Fisher [1965] 1 WLR 464, one of the cases cited by Mr Sephton in his skeleton. The SDT were a specialist tribunal addressing a tutored audience. Th......

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