Singh v State

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date2006
Date2006
CourtPrivy Council
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9 cases
  • Nigel Hunter and Others v R
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 16 April 2015
    ...39 As for the stark assertion at the Board's principle ii) above as to the consequences of a failure to give the direction, in Singh v the State [2005] UKPC 35 [2006] WLR 146 at paragraph 30 Lord Bingham on behalf of the Board added a rider: "The significance of what is not said in a summin......
  • Gilbert v The Queen
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 27 March 2006
    ...and coherence" of the circumstantial evidence." (See Lord Hope of Craighead in Balson v The State [2005] UK PC 6 at para 37.) 20 In Singh v The State [2005] UKPC 35 at p 14 [2006] 1 WLR 146 AT P 156 Lord Bingham said: "The significance of what is not said is a summing-up should be judged ......
  • Mark France and Rupert Vassell v The Queen
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 16 August 2012
    ... ... actual appearance and that this could have raised questions about the reliability of his evidence is likely only to have thrown them into a state of confusion as to how to deal with the evidence that had actually been given and to ask them to embark on a speculative exercise of considering the ... the omission of a good character direction is not necessarily fatal to the fairness of the trial or to the safety of a conviction — Jagdeo Singh … [2006] 1 WLR 146 , para 25 and Bhola v The State [2006] 4 LRC 268 , paras 14–17. As Lord Bingham of Cornhill said at para 25 in Jagdeo ... ...
  • Johnson v R
    • Bahamas
    • Court of Appeal (Bahamas)
    • 3 April 2017
    ...(ii) of Teeluck. After examining three appeals (viz: Balson v. State [2005] 4 L.R.C. 147; Uriah Brown v. R [2006] 1 L.R.C. 322 and Singh v. State [2006] 2 L.R.C. 409) in which the failure to give a good character direction had been held not to have affected the outcome of the trial, the ......
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