R v Hepworth and Fearnley

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1955
CourtCourt of Criminal Appeal
Year1955
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    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 10 July 2009
    ...case and the jury must acquit ( Aubrey (1915) 11 Cr App R 182; Brain (1918) 13 Cr App R 197; Sanders (1919) 14 Cr App R 11; Hepworth [1955] 2 QB 600 ) " (emphasis supplied — see paragraph 27 below). 26 It is always important to bear in mind, we think, that what Archbold 2007 describes (at ......
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  • Ian Brown and Another v The State
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 29 January 2003
    ...other than a fanciful doubt, vitiated the effect of the summing up. This was based upon some remarks of Lord Goddard CJ in R v Hepworth [1955] 2 QB 600, 603. He said that references to a reasonable doubt, by contrast with a fanciful doubt, was in itself unhelpful because these expressions ......
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