R v X and Others

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1991
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
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7 cases
  • Ramcharran v Commissioner of Correctional Services and DPP and another
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 29 September 2007
    ...However, the learned trial judge has a duty to warn the jury of the danger of acting on the uncorroborated evidence of an accomplice. (See R v Turner [1975] 61 Cr. App. R 67 ). The editor of Phipson on Evidence, 14 th edition [1990] paragraph 14 – 10 states: "An accomplice who is separatel......
  • R (Al-Fawwaz) v Governor of Brixton Prison
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 17 December 2001
    ...by an accused to the decision of a magistrate or judge to admit the evidence of an anonymous witness is given in the judgments delivered in R v D J X (1989) 91 Cr App R 36 and R v Watford Magistrates Court, Ex p Lenman [1993] Crim LR 388. In the former case Lord Lane CJ stated at p 40: "The......
  • R v Davis (Iain); R v Ellis; R v Gregory; R v Simms; R v Martin
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 18 June 2008
    ...that the identity of witnesses should be withheld". The only authority cited in support of that proposition was R v DJX, SCY and GCZ (1989) 91 Cr App R 36 (" R v X, Y and Z"). That was a case in which screens had been erected so that child victims and the defendants accused of abusing them ......
  • R (D) v Camberwell Green Youth Court; R (G) v Camberwell Green Youth Court
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 4 February 2003
    ...that the divergence of approach between Lord Steyn and Lord Hope in A [2002] 1 AC 45 was unanimously resolved by the House of Lords in In Re S [2002] 2 AC 291 at 313, paragraphs 38 to 40, per Lord Nicholls. Lord Nicholls distinguished between interpretation of statutes being for the courts ......
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