Rumping v DPP
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Year | 1962 |
| Date | 1962 |
| Court | Court of Appeal |
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3 cases
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Australian Crime Commission v Stoddart
...one spouse was not a competent witness against the other spouse. The fourth, long uncertain but eventually upheld by the House of Lords in Rumping, denied the existence of a privilege which protected marital communications as such, and is not in issue in the present litigation. It should, h......
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R v Hallett Hc Rot
... ... CJ Monroe v Twistleton (1802) Peake Add Cas 219 (HL) in which his Lordship found that a divorced woman could not give evidence against her husband of things learned during their marriage, and the approval given to this approach by Viscount Radcliffe in his dissenting judgment in Rumping v Director of Public Prosecutions [1964] AC 814 (HL) at 839: This decision [ Monroe v Twistleton] is the first of several in which the principle of preserving the confidence of the conjugal relation was applied in circumstances in which there was no existing conjugal relationship to ... ...
- Charles v Ramnath