Reid (Junior) v The Queen; Dennis v The Queen; Whylie v The Queen; Reece v The Queen

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1989
Year1989
Date1989
CourtPrivy Council
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148 cases
  • Public Prosecutor v Okonkwo and Another
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 21 June 1993
    ...of Taxation [1983] 1 NSWLR 1 (refd) Browne v Dunn (1893) 6 R 67 (distd) Habee Bur Rahman v PP [1971] 2 MLJ 194 (refd) Junior Reid v R [1990] 1 AC 363 (distd) PP v Kok Heng [1948] MLJ 171 (refd) PP v Lim Ah Poh [1991] 2 SLR (R) 307; [1992] 1 SLR 87 (folld) Tan Ah Tee v PP [1979-1980] SLR (R)......
  • Mills and Others v The Queen
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 1 March 1995
    ...he should comply with the sense and spirit of the guidance in Turnbull as restated by the Privy Council in Reid (Junior) v The QueenELR ((1990) 1 AC 363). In the present case the judge had emphasised that a perfectly honest witness could be a mistaken witness. That was entirely apt to conve......
  • Daley v The Queen
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 18 August 1993
    ...applied in Jamaica. As regards Turnbull, however, the position in Jamaica was for a time different. In Reid (Junior) v The QueenELR ((1990) 1 AC 363) it was made clear that the portion of the judgment in Turnbull which required the case to be withdrawn from the jury if the quality of the id......
  • R v Bentley
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • Invalid date
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3 books & journal articles
  • Recent Judicial Decisions
    • United Kingdom
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles No. 85-2, June 2012
    • 1 June 2012
    ...85 (2012) 177 inf‌luence the perception of the jury, so the defence were claim-ing unfair bias. Whilst the Privy Council in Reid v R [1990] AC363 rejected the suggestion that police off‌icers were better ableto identify suspects accurately than members of the public, therehas been English c......
  • Privy Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 67-6, December 2003
    • 1 December 2003
    ...had previously endorsed and applied the guidance laid down inR v Turnbull [1977] QB 224 on a number of occasions (see Reid vTheQueen [1990] 1 AC 363; Shand vThe Queen [1996] 1 WLR 67). Accord-ingly an appropriate direction ought to have been given. Although thejudge drew attention to the po......
  • Digest of Recent Unreported Commonwealth Caribbean Cases
    • Caribbean Community
    • Caribbean Law Review No. 1-2, December 1991
    • 1 December 1991
    ...the Turnbull guidelines. In recent appeals in the cases of Junior Reid, Roy Dennis, Oliver Whylie, Errol Reece and Others v. R. [1990] 1 A.C. 363 their Lordships had referred to those reservations as expressed in R. v. Graham and Lewis (Unrep.) S. Ct. Tea., S. Ct. App., Nos. 158 and 159 of ......

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