R v Hall

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1952
CourtCourt of Appeal
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7 cases
  • Stubley v Western Australia
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 30 March 2011
    ...lacking in the concreteness and verisimilitude which testimony could convey. The difficulty is illustrated by what Connolly J said in R v Raabe, a case in which the applicant was convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm 78: ‘After the jury was empanelled his counsel immediately i......
  • Alexander v The State
    • Trinidad & Tobago
    • Court of Appeal (Trinidad and Tobago)
    • 24 April 1979
    ...(supra) was given, is provided in Cross on Evidence (4th Edn.) 318 — 19. After referring to the fact that Lord Goddard in R. v. Hall [1952] 1 K. B. 302, 307 conceded that regard must be had to the defences open to the accused, the learned author states: “it may be assumed that evidence of a......
  • R v Flack
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 16 December 1968
    ...that in all the circumstances the charges might well have been tried together, although the reason given by the Judge was wrong. ( The King v. Hall– 35 Criminal Appeal Reports at page 172.) 4 In the present case, Mr. Gower on behalf of the appellant argues very persuasively that the reasons......
  • R v Ludlow
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 15 July 1969
    ...an exercise of discretion unless it can be seen that justice has not been done or unless "compelled to do so by some overwhelming fact": R. v. Hall (1952) 1 King's Bench 302 per Lord Goddard, the Lord Chief Justice, at page 305; R. v. Flack (1969) 1 Weekly Law Reports 937. It may be that ......
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