Randall v R

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CourtPrivy Council
Judgment Date2002
Date2002
Year2002

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18 cases
  • Siemer v The Solicitor-General
    • New Zealand
    • Supreme Court
    • 12 July 2013
    ... ... 28 R v Forbes [2001] 1 AC 473 (HL) at [24] and Brown v Scott [2003] 1 AC 681 (PC) at 693. See also R v Hansen [2007] NZSC 7 , [2007] 3 NZLR 1 at [38]; R v Stewart (Eric) [2009] NZSC 53 , [2009] 3 NZLR 425 at [33]; Randall v R [2002] UKPC 19 , [2002] 1 WLR 2237 at [28]; and R v Horsham Justices ex parte Farquharson [1982] 1 QB 762 (CA) ... 29 See discussion in Condon v R [2006] NZSC 62 , [2007] 1 NZLR 300 at [77]; and in R v Hansen , above n 28, at [36]–[38] ... 30 ... ...
  • Bonnett Taylor v The Queen
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 14 March 2013
    ...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......
  • R v H and Another
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 5 February 2004
    ... ... 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 ... ...
  • Benedetto v The Queen (No 2)
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 20 October 2003
    ... ... 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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