R v Wheeler
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1967 |
| Year | 1967 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) |
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R v Abraham
... ... is the second of a series of three cases coming before this Court within a matter of three days where the same point is involved, a point which recurs with depressing frequency, despite the clarity of the warning in relation to it given by this Court in the judgment of Lord Justice Winn in Wheeler (1967) 52 Criminal Appeal Reports page 28 ... 2 The point may "be stated in this way: where a defendant charged with a criminal assault of one kind or another raises a plea of self-defence has the trial Judge in his direction to the Jury made it perfectly clear it is for the Crown ... ...
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R v Seaton (Oral)
...case of many, but not all, witnesses, either side could call them. Those were no doubt among the reasons which lay behind the decision in R v Wheeler (1967) 52 Cr App R 28 that all that ought normally to be said is that neither side had called the witness. But as this court explained in R v......
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Kevin Peterkin v R
...or raises the issue of accident, he assumes no burden to prove it. Instead, the burden rests on the prosecution to negative it (see R v Wheeler [1967] 3 ALL ER 829 and R v Abraham [1973] 3 ALL E R 694 with respect to self-defence and provocation; and The State v Guy Simmons (1976) 24 WIR......
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R v Gallagher
...could give material evidence, whatever that evidence might be. 36 The other case to which we were referred on this aspect was the case of R. v. Wheeler, reported in 1967 1 Weekly Law REports 1531. That was a case in this Court, the members of the Court being Lord Parker Lord Chief Justice,......
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Defenceless Castles
...[1987] QB 995 (CA). 10. R v Hatton [2005] EWCA Crim 2951, [2006] 1 Cr App R 247.11. R v Lobell [1957] 1 QB 547 (CCA).12. R v Wheeler [1967] 1 WLR 1531 (CA). Thomas 409 of the courts, namely that before the issue of self-defence is left to the jury, there must be ‘someevidence’,13 whether fr......