Vasquez v The Queen
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 1994 |
| Date | 1994 |
| Year | 1994 |
| Court | Privy Council |
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53 cases
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Culmer v R
...on the defendant to prove a defence of provocation. The Crown submitted that in the light of the decision of the Privy Council in Vasquez v. The Queen [1994] 1 W.L.R. 1304, given in respect of similar provisions of the Criminal Code of Belize, no other conclusion is as a matter of precedent......
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Norman Shaw v The Queen
...116 clearly intended to impose the burden on the defendant to establish any of the matters in (a) to (d) on which he wished to rely. In Vasquez v. R [1994] 1 WLR 1304, however, the Board held, considering section 116 (a), that lack of provocation was one of the essential ingredients of mur......
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DPP of Jamaica v Mollison
...offending provision in the proviso and to give effect to it in its modified form, not to strike down the proviso altogether, see also Vasquez v. The Queen [1994] 1 W.L.R. 1304 or [1994] 3 All ER 674." 47 The important point to note is that a savings clause may preserve legislation with jud......
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4 books & journal articles
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Rationalising the burden of establishing defences at criminal law in Singapore: Reconsidering Jayasena, in the wake of Eu Lim Hoklai
...in the later High Court case of Public Prosecutor v Knight Glenn Jeyasingam at [58]. 11. [2008] 2 SLR(R) 239.12. Ibid. at [117].13. [1994] 3 All ER 674.14. [1935] 1 AC 462.15. Cap. 68.16. Cap. 185.17. Cap. The International Journal of Evidence & Proof 21(4) Overview: The criminal burden of ......
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COMMON LAW CONSTITUTIONALISM THROUGH METHODOLOGY.
...an imperial power, the land was considered terra nullius. See Mabo v Queensland (No 2), [1992] HCA 23 at paras 31-46. (80) Vasquez v R, [1994] 1 WLR 1304 at 1314, [1994] 3 AU ER 674 (PC, (81) [1996] AC 624 at 624, [1996] 1 All ER 756 (PC, NZ). (82) Ibid at 640. (83) Robert Reed, "Comparativ......
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Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
...to leave the partial defence to the jury. When asimilar conflict arose before the Board in relation to the law of Belize inVasquez v R[1994]1 WLR 1304, the appellant was able to rely on theconstitutional presumption of innocence, but the Constitution of theBahamas specifically stated that i......
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Deeming provisions and the presumption of innocence - rebuttable presumption vs irrebuttable presumption
...that any person charged with a criminal offence was presumed to be innocent until he was proved guilty, and were therefore void. 1 [1994] 3 All ER 674-675. Held - On its true construction s.l16(a) of the Criminal Code when read together with ss.l17 and 119 placed the burden of proof of prov......