R v Sheridan
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Year | 1936 |
| Date | 1936 |
| Court | Court of Criminal Appeal |
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40 cases
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Richards v The Queen
...that any court sustained a plea of autrefois convict on the basis of a finding of guilt alone. The first such case was R v SheridanELR ([1937] 1 KB 223), which was followed in R v GrantUNK ([1936] 2 All ER 1156) Those two cases represented the high watermark of Mr Thornton's submissions. Bu......
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DPP v Cawley
...1 All E.R. 684. Reid v. Reid [1886] 31 Ch. D. 402; 55 L.J. Ch. 294; 54 L.T. 100; 34 W.R. 332; 2 T.L.R. 254. Rex v. Frank Sheridan [1937] 1 K.B. 223; [1936] 2 All E.R. 883; 100 J.P. 319; 26 Cr. App. Rep. 1, 30 Cox CC 447; 80 Sol. Jo. 535; 106 L.J.K.B. 6; 155 L.T. 207; 52 T.L.R. 626; 34 L.G.R......
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R v Abdulla Ahmed Ali and Others
...it seems although it were sufficient, yet it is no bar without clergy or judgment." 31 However, this court in two decisions in the 1930s, R v Sheridan [1937] 1 KB 223 and R v Grant [1936] 2 All ER 116 decided that the plea of autrefois convict could be relied on even if a defendant had not ......
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Courts of Summary Jurisdiction
...provisions oftheAct, were designedtoavoidthedifficulties in which magistrates' courts foundthemselves afterthedecision in R. v. Sheridan (1937, 1K.B.223)andR. v. Grant (1936, 2AllE.R. 1156).Theeffect of these decisions wasthatifon hearing oftheprisoner'spastrecordthemagistrates considered t......
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Court of Criminal Appeal
...COURT OF CRIMINALAPPEAL39thejustices were entitled,ifnotactually bound, tohearthatevidence.Thematteris dealtwithin R. v. Sheridan(1937, 1K.B.223).Nevertheless,itwas said inthejudgment,therearealways risksthattheprevious record oftheaccused may,either through being readoutin court, or, as in......