R v Hopkins-Husson

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1949
Date1949
CourtCourt of Criminal Appeal
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  • Attorney General for Jersey v Edmond-O'Brien
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 22 March 2006
    ...which a verdict had been set aside "as one which no reasonable tribunal could have found" were exceptional. As Lord Goddard CJ said in R v Hopkins-Husson (1949) 34 Cr App R 47, 49: "[T]he fact that some members or all the members of [this] court think that they themselves would have returne......
  • Ramroop v R
    • Trinidad & Tobago
    • Court of Appeal (Trinidad and Tobago)
    • 30 June 1969
    ...obviously and palpably wrong, See R. v. Hancox, 8 Cr. App. R..193 also R. v. Chalk (1961) C.L.R. 326 and R. v. Hopkins & Husson (1949) 34 Cr. App. R. 47 when in dismissing an appeal the Court of Criminal Appeal also laid down that it would never substitute its own opinion for that of the j......
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