R v Gilfoyle

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year2001
Date2001
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
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8 cases
  • Kennedy v Cordia (Services) LLP
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court (Scotland)
    • 1 February 2017
    ...academic research and a methodology which was not yet sufficiently developed that it could be treated as reliable. See also, for example, R v Gilfoyle [2001] 2 Cr App R 5, in which the English Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) refused to admit expert evidence on "psychological autopsy" f......
  • R v Reed; R v Garmson
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 21 December 2009
    ...what was believed to be the test in the United States in Frye v US 293 F 1013 (1923) and the consideration of it by this Court in R v Gilfoyle (no2) [2001] 2 Cr App R 57, referred to at paragraph 29 with approval to a passage set out in Cross and Tapper: The Law of Evidence now to be found ......
  • John Oliver Dyrud v Palmavon Jasamin Webster
    • Anguilla
    • Court of Appeal (Anguilla)
    • 27 April 2022
    ...LLP [2016] 1 WLR 597 applied; Pora v The Queen [2015] UKPC 9 at 24 considered; Young v her Majesty's Advocate 2014 SLT 21 considered; R v Gilfoyle [2001] 2 Cr App R 5 considered; Davie v Magistrates of Edinburgh (1953) SC 34 considered. 8. The Webster Application sought to appoint Mr. Ho......
  • John Oliver Dyrud v Palmavon Jasamin Webster
    • Anguilla
    • Court of Appeal (Anguilla)
    • 27 April 2022
    ...LLP [2016] 1 WLR 597 applied; Pora v The Queen [2015] UKPC 9 at 24 considered; Young v her Majesty's Advocate 2014 SLT 21 considered; R v Gilfoyle [2001] 2 Cr App R 5 considered; Davie v Magistrates of Edinburgh (1953) SC 34 considered. 8. The Webster Application sought to appoint Mr. Ho......
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10 books & journal articles
  • ‘A new and more rigorous approach’ to expert evidence in England and Wales?
    • United Kingdom
    • International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 19-4, October 2015
    • 1 October 2015
    ...EWCA Crim 589 at [14].17. [2012] 54 EHRR 23.18. Riat, above n. 16 at [33].19. RvRobb (1991) 93 Cr App R 161 at 166–7; RvGilfoyle [2001] 2 Cr App R 5 at [24]; Luttrell, above n. 15 at 36.20. Above, n. 8 at 40.232 The International Journal of Evidence & Proof evidence can be considered ‘relia......
  • The Reliability of Expert Evidence: Reflections on the Law Commission's Proposals for Reform
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 73-6, December 2009
    • 1 December 2009
    ...a residual discretion to refuse to admit evidence which appears so unreliableas to imperil the accused’s right to a fair trial.18 [2001] 2 Cr App R 5 (p. 57). The court engaged in an enhanced test to determinethe reliability of the prof‌iling evidence of a forensic psychologist. The appella......
  • Expert Opinion Evidence: The Middle Way
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 73-5, October 2009
    • 1 October 2009
    ...the elevation of a witness to anexpert. In Dallagher, a police off‌icer testif‌ied for the prosecution.38 More31 Above n. 29 at 239.32 [2001] 2 Cr App R 5 at [18].33 Ibid. at [28].34 J. Vasagar and R. Allison, ‘How cot deaths shattered mother’s dreams’, Guardian,12 June 2003, available at h......
  • Proposals for Reforming the Law of Self-Defence
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 72-5, October 2008
    • 1 October 2008
    ...in HMAdvocate v Grimmond (David) 2002 SLT 508.67 Folkes v Chadd (1782) 3 Doug KB 157.68 Rv Turner [1975] QB 834 at 841.69 Rv Gilfoyle [2001] 2 Cr App R 5 at H10.70 T. Hobbs, ‘Parental Alienation Syndrome and UK Family Courts, Part 1’ [2002] 32Family Law 182–9.71 A. Gold, Expert Evidence in ......
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