Walters v The Queen

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1968
Year1968
Date1968
CourtPrivy Council
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48 cases
  • Jsc Mezhdunarodniy Promyshlenniy Bank and Another v Sergei Viktorovich Pugachev
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 8 February 2016
    ...case the meaning of this formulation were unclear, Phipson on Evidence (17th edition, 2009 at paragraph 6.51) cites the Privy Council in Walters v. R [1969] 2 A.C. 26 as indicating that "[a] reasonable doubt is that quality or kind of doubt which when you are dealing with matters of import......
  • R. v. Brydon (J.L.), (1995) 55 B.C.A.C. 6 (CA)
    • Canada
    • British Columbia Court of Appeal (British Columbia)
    • 3 February 1995
    ...93 C.C.C. 100 (Man. C.A.), refd to. [para. 90]. Brown v. R. (1913), 17 C.L.R. 570 (Aust. H.C.), refd to. [para. 91]. Walters v. R., [1969] 2 A.C. 26 (P.C.), refd to. [para. R. v. Gray (1973), 58 Cr. App. Rep. 177 (C.A.), refd to. [para. 92]. Bishop v. United States (1939), 107 F.2d 297 (D.C......
  • Julie Anne Palmer and Nicholas Edward Reed (Joint Liquidators of Changtel Solutions UK Ltd ((in Liquidation))) (Applicants) JI-Chuen Jason Tsai (Respondent)
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 21 July 2017
    ...case the meaning of this formulation were unclear, Phipson on Evidence (17 th edition, 2009 at paragraph 6.51) cites the Privy Council in Walters v. R [1969] 2 A.C. 26 as indicating that "[a] reasonable doubt is that quality or kind of doubt which when you are dealing with matters of impor......
  • Darkan v R, Deemal-Hal v R, Mcivor v R
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 22 June 2006
    ... (1986) 161 CLR 10 at 22. 67 (1999) 104 A Crim R 238 at 247–248 per Pidgeon J, Kennedy and White JJ concurring. 68Walters v The Queen [1969] 2 AC 26 at 29 per Lord Diplock; Ferguson v The Queen [1979] 1 WLR 94 at 99; [1979] 1 All ER 877 at 882 per Lord Scarman (in general it is wise to emp......
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3 books & journal articles
  • Codifying the Law on Evidential Burdens
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 72-4, August 2008
    • 1 August 2008
    ...372. Alternatively, ‘satisf‌ied so that theyfeel sure’, per Lord Goddard CJ in R v Kritz [1950] 1 KB 82 at 89–90 (approved inWalters vR [1969] 2 AC 26 and R v Summers (1952) 36 Cr App R 14).19 R vCarr-Briant [1943] KB 607 at 612.20 Woolmington vDPP [1935] AC 462 at 481–2, per Viscount Sanke......
  • The Chaos of Reasonable Doubt
    • Ireland
    • Trinity College Law Review No. XVII-2014, January 2014
    • 1 January 2014
    ...at 13. 47 R v Hepworth and Fearnley [1955] 2 QB 600. 48 Hodge Malek (ed.), Phipson on Evidence (16 th ed., Sweet and Maxwell, 2005). 49 [1969] 2 AC 26. 50 [1969] 2 AC 26, at 30. 51 (1976) 63 Cr App R 7. 192 Trinity College Law Review [Vol 17 Thus, if one compares the status quo to a convolu......
  • The Black Flame (part one): Snyman’s Criminal Law
    • South Africa
    • Juta South African Criminal Law Journal No. , November 2021
    • 17 November 2021
    ...are now instruct ed to convict only if they a re ‘sure’ of the accused’s gu ilt, see R v Summers [1952] 1 All ER 1059 CCA; Walters v R [1969] 2 AC 26 PC; Ferguson v R [1979] 1 WLR 94 PC; R v Bracewell (1979) 68 Cr App R 44 CA); Judicial St udies Board Crown Court Bench Book – Direc ting the......

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