R v Thompson
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Year | 1893 |
| Date | 1893 |
| Court | Court for Crown Cases Reserved |
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78 cases
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State v Gobin; State v Griffith
...the party may have been influenced to say what is not true, and the supposed confession cannot be safely acted upon.” 10 And in Reg. v. Thompson (1893) 17 Cox C. C. 641, the same tribunal (Lord Coleridge, C.J. Hawkins, Cave, Day and Wills, JJ.) adopted and applied Baron Parke's ruling in Re......
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3 books & journal articles
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Evidence 1
...settlement recorded in the circumstances stated could not be “free” or willingly offered. It is a farce. Cave J. in R.v. Thompson (1893) 2 Q.B. 12 declared a confessional statement: “To be admissible, (it) must be free and voluntary. If it proceeds from remorse and a desire to make reparati......
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THE CONCEPT OF VOLUNTARINESS IN THE LAW OF CONFESSIONS
...Digest of the Law of Evidence (Macmillan and Co, Limited, 12thEd, 1936) at pp 195—197. 14 (1852) 2 Den 430; 169 ER 568 (“R v Baldry”). 15 [1893] 2 QB 12. 16 [1914] AC 599 at 609. Lord Hailsham of Marylebone in Director Public Prosecutions v Ping Lin[1976] AC 574 (“DPP v Ping Lin”) at 598 wa......
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Admissibility of confession evidence: Principles of hearsay and the rule of voluntariness
...The foundations of a test of voluntariness wereemerging in practice as can be seen in the earlier 1893 judgment in The Queen vThompson [1893] 2 QB 12.43. Ibrahim, n. 11 above at 608.44. Ibid. at 611.45. Ibid. at 609.46. Ibid. at 610.Porter operate in a way that mandates exclusion without du......