Teper v The Queen

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1952
Year1952
CourtPrivy Council
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232 cases
  • Benedetto v The Queen (No 2)
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • October 20, 2003
    ...costs. The second is whether they should be awarded their costs in the courts below as well as before their Lordships' Board. 6 In Teper v The Queen [1952] AC 480, 493 it was said that the practice of the Board was against giving expenses to the successful appellant in a criminal appeal sa......
  • R v Blastland
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • July 25, 1985
    ...subject to any test of reliability by cross-examination. As Lord Normand put it, delivering the judgment of the Privy Council in Lejzor Teper v. The Queen [1952] A.C. 480, 486: "The rule against admission of hearsay evidence is fundamental. It is not the best evidence and it is not delivere......
  • Connell Richardson Appellant v The Queen Respondent [ECSC]
    • Anguilla
    • Court of Appeal (Anguilla)
    • June 9, 1997
    ...of murder -Directions on what amounts to circumstantial and the manner in which circumstantial evidence should be treated by the jury —Teper v The Queen (1952) AC 480, 489 applied — Whether certain items of evidence of more prejudicial effect than of probative value — Exercise of judge's di......
  • Bernal et Al v Reginam
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • January 26, 1996
    ...really no difference, in the manner in which a conclusion of guilt may be drawn from circumstantial evidence. 49 In Teper v. The Queen [1952] A.C. 480 at page 489 Lord Norman in delivering the reasons of the Board stated: “Circumstantial evidence may sometimes be conclusive, but it must alw......
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17 books & journal articles
  • Preliminary Sections
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Nigerian Supreme Court Cases. 1976 Preliminary Sections
    • November 15, 2022
    ...1970 1 ALR Comm 423. 392 Taiwo & Ors v. Akinwunmi & Ors (1975) 4 S.C. 143. 341 Tallack v. Tallack (1927) p. 211, 222. 292 Teper v. R (1952) A.C. 480. 670 The Alert (1895) 72 L.T. 124. 244 CASES REFERRED TO IN 1976 The Automatic Telephone & Electric Company Limited v. The Federal Military Go......
  • Subject Index
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 15-4, October 2011
    • October 1, 2011
    .... . . . . . . . . . . . .355Taylor vKentucky 436 US478 (1978). . . . . . . . 189Tehan vUnites States 382US 406 (1966). . . . . 291Teper vR [1952] AC480 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67Terry vOhio 392 US1 (1968) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308Totalise plc v Motley Fool Ltd [2001]......
  • Athwal and All That: Previous Statements, Narrative, and the Taxonomy of Hearsay
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 74-5, October 2010
    • October 1, 2010
    ...These reasons might be usefully compared with thoseadvanced in support of the hearsay rule in Lord Normand’s classical opinion inTeper vR[1952] AC 480 at 486: ‘The rule against the admission of hearsay evidenceis fundamental. It is not the best evidence and it is not delivered on oath. Thet......
  • Evidence 1
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Sasegbon's Laws of Nigeria. Volume 10. Part I Evidence 1
    • June 30, 2016
    ...must lead conclusively and indisputably to the guilt of the accused person. As Lord Normand has rightly pointed out in R. v. Tepper (1952) A.C. 480 at page 489 - “It must always be narrowly examined, if only because evidence of this kind may be fabricated to cast suspicion on another.it is ......
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