R v Sims

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1946
Date1946
CourtCourt of Criminal Appeal
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137 cases
  • R v Flack
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 16 December 1968
    ...learned Judge's provisional view with passages from the judgments of Lord Goddard, Lord Chief Justice, in ( The King v. Sims 31 Criminal Appeal Reports at page 168) and ( The Queen v. Campbell 40 Criminal Appeal Reports at page 103). Mr. Charles has very frankly conceded that these passages......
  • Herman Morris Santucci v R
    • Bermuda
    • Court of Appeal (Bermuda)
    • 7 July 1989
  • R v Doughty
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Criminal Appeal
    • 18 January 1965
    ... ... 8 Now it is quite clear that evidence of similar acts of indecency is admissible evidence to enable the Jury to decide whether the visits by Carol and Shirley were in pursuance of a guilty or an innocent association. It was put like this in the case of Sims, reported in 31 Criminal Appeal Reports, at page 158, at page 169. There Lord Goddard in giving the judgment of the Court said this: "In this case the matter can be put in another and very simple way; the visits of the men to the prisoner's house were either for a guilty or an innocent purpose; ... ...
  • DPP v LG
    • Ireland
    • Court of Criminal Appeal
    • 21 May 2003
    ...The People (Director of Public Prosecutions) v. B.K. [2000] 2 I.R. 199 and Attorney-General v. Duffy[1931] I.R. 144applied. R. v. Sims [1946] 1 K.B. 531 and Reg. v. Boardman [1975] A.C. 421 approved. 2. That, if the court of trial was entitled to quash an indictment on the ground of delay w......
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6 books & journal articles
  • The legal structure of propensity evidence
    • United Kingdom
    • International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 20-2, April 2016
    • 1 April 2016
    ...bemisleading or confusing, or (c) cause or result in undue waste of time’, since these are listed separately in132. For example, RvSims [1946] KB 531, 539, 544.133. For example, Moorov vHM Advocate 1930 JC 68, 73.134. For example, Boardman, n. 7 at 441, 452–454, 457; Perry, n. 15 at 610; Pf......
  • Similar Facts, Familiar Obfuscation: R v Handy
    • United Kingdom
    • International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 6-4, December 2002
    • 1 December 2002
    ...is more probative than prejudicial in relation to the crime charged. I accept as correct the dictum of Lord Goddard C.J. in R v Sims. [1946] 1 All ER 697 ... that ‘evidence is not to be excluded 23 Ibid. at para. 61. r 24 Ibid. at para. 65. 25 See. e.g.. C.B. Mueller and L.C. Kirkpatrick. E......
  • Recent Judicial Decisions
    • United Kingdom
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles No. 25-2, April 1952
    • 1 April 1952
    ...a side-wind."Recent Judicial DecisionsADMISSIBILITYOFEVIDENCEOFSIMILARFACTSR. v. HallTHEjudgmentoftheCourtof Criminal Appeal in R. v. Sims(1946K.B. 531) has metwithsome criticism regardingtheexpositiontheregiven of the law relating totheadmissibility of evidence of similarfacts, more partic......
  • Recent Judicial Decisions
    • United Kingdom
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles No. 38-5, May 1965
    • 1 May 1965
    ...was quashed on appeal.The Court of Criminal Appeal of course recognized the force ofthe important ruling in R. v. Sims (XIX P.l. 252) [1946] 1 All E.R.697.Itwas there said:"Thevisits of the men to the prisoner'shouse were either for a guilty or an innocent purpose: that they allspeak to the......
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