Randall v R
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 2002 |
| Date | 2002 |
| Year | 2002 |
| Court | Privy Council |
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16 cases
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Benedetto v The Queen (No 2)
... ... But there are various aspects of the way in which Mr Guerra conducted himself which call for comment as they were wholly at variance with the way in which prosecuting counsel, as a minister of justice, should behave ... 54 In Randall v The Queen [2002] UKPC 19 ; [2002] 1 WLR 2237 , 2241G, para 10(1) the Board drew attention to the fact that the duty of prosecuting counsel is not to obtain a conviction at all costs but to act as minister of justice. Reference was made to the description of the prosecutor's role by Rand J in ... ...
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Bonnett Taylor v The Queen
...463, CA (if a defendant has been denied a fair trial, it would be almost inevitable that the conviction would be regarded as unsafe); Randall v The Queen [2002] 1 WLR 2237, PC (right to a fair trial is absolute, and there would come a point when departure from good practice was so gross, o......
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R v H and Another
... ... The appellants' counsel were generous in their acknowledgement of the high standards of fairness which judges routinely apply. The duty of prosecuting counsel, recently considered by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Randall v The Queen [2002] UKPC 19 , [2002] 1 WLR 2237, para 10 , is not to obtain a conviction at all costs but to act as a minister of justice. As Rand J put it in the Supreme Court of Canada in Boucher v The Queen [1955] SCR 16, 24-25 : "Counsel have a duty to see that all available ... ...
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DPP of Mauritius v Hurnam
... ... Prosecuting counsel attacked the respondent vigorously, but in their Lordships' judgment his conduct did not exceed permissible bounds or come near equating with the type of behaviour exemplified by that portrayed in Randall v The Queen [2002] UKPC 19 , [2002] 1 WLR 2237 or Benedetto v The Queen [2003] UKPC 27 , [2003] 1 WLR 1545 , both of which were relied on by the respondent ... 22 The topic which occupied the major part of Mr Guthrie's argument before the Board was an attempt to discredit the ... ...
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