R v Mendy

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeLORD JUSTICE GEOFFREY LANE
Judgment Date24 June 1976
Judgment citation (vLex)[1976] EWCA Crim J0624-4
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Docket NumberNo. 4710/A/75
Date24 June 1976

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  • Officers C,D,H and R’s Application - Officer A’s application - Jordan’s (Hugh) Application
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Northern Ireland)
    • 18 September 2012
  • Sookraj v Patadeen
    • Trinidad & Tobago
    • High Court (Trinidad and Tobago)
    • 23 June 1994
    ...was an honest and truthful witness. BIAS OR PARTIALITY 126 In Keane on Evidence above at page 134 the author relying on the case of R v. Mendy (1976) 64 Cr. App. R. 4 (C.A.) at pg. 6 said: “It has always been permissible to call evidence to contradict a witness's denial of bias or partialit......
  • R v Busby
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 14 December 1981
    ...to call evidence to rebut his daughters' denial that they had been schooled by their mother to give evidence against him. Again, in R. v. Mendy (1976) 64 C.A.R. 4, it was held that evidence in rebuttal could be called after a denial by the witness that he had been spoken to by someone who l......
  • R v Campbell
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 26 July 1978
    ...on which evidence in rebuttal on matters going to credit alone can be admitted is a reasonably elastic one as the recent decision in The Queen v. Mendy shows, but not so elastic, in our judgment, as to have made this evidence admissible. At all events, the evidence from the dock had not bee......
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