R v Perry

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1909
Year1909
CourtCourt of Criminal Appeal
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16 cases
  • Wesley Mirjah Appellant v The Queen Respondent [Ecsc]
    • Grenada
    • Court of Appeal (Grenada)
    • 13 October 1972
    ...be proved that the man was dying, and there must be a settled hopeless expectation of death in the declarant". (Per Willes J. inReg v. Peel 2 F & F 21, approved by Lord Alverstone C.J. in delivering the judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeal in Rex, v. Perry (1909) 2 K.B. 697 at 703). On ......
  • Clive Castello Rawlson Straugh Appellants v The Queen Respondent
    • St Vincent
    • Court of Appeal (Saint Vincent)
    • 17 July 2002
    ...whether it falls within some rigid and artificial category. 19 For example in R v Woodcock 1 Leach 500 which was cited and approved in R v Perry (1909) 2KB 697, 701; 2 Cr.App.R 267 Eyre CB declared that: "The general principle on which this species of evidence is admitted is that they are ......
  • R v Raymond Lawson
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 7 May 1998
    ...R v Peel (1860) 2 F & F 21; 175 ER 941; R v Cleary (1862) 2 F & F 850; 175 ER 1316; R v Jenkins (supra); R v Bedingfield (1879) 14 Cox 341; R v Perry [1909] 2 KB 697; Nembhard v R (supra). If this condition is held to be clearly satisfied evidence of the statement is in principle admissible......
  • Dean v R
    • Bahamas
    • Court of Appeal (Bahamas)
    • 25 June 2009
    ...which is imposed by a positive oath administered in a court of justice.” See paragraph 35–60 of Phipson on Evidence, 16th Edition. 31 In R v. Perry [1909] 2 K.B. 697, Lord Alverstone, CJ set out the principles of law to be applied by a judge when considering whether to admit a statement by ......
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