R v Sims
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 1946 |
| Date | 1946 |
| Year | 1946 |
| Court | Court of Criminal Appeal |
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138 cases
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R v Flack
...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......
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R v Doughty
... ... 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; ... ...
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DPP v LG
...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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8 books & journal articles
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The legal structure of propensity evidence
...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......
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Encoding similar facts - has it been worth the effort? An Australian experience
...to probe 73 Ibid at 333. 74 See [1975] AC 421 at 440 per Lord Morris; ibid at 444 per Lord Witberforce; ibid at 450 per Lord Hailsham. 75 [1946] KB 531 at 540. rationally the case against the defendant. In so doing, the legislation would be taken to have obviated the problem which derives f......
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Similar Facts, Familiar Obfuscation: R v Handy
...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......
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Recent Judicial Decisions
...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......
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