Basto v R

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
Neutral Citation[1954] HCA 78,1954-1217 HCA A
Date1954
CourtHigh Court
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  • State v Gobin; State v Griffith
    • Guyana
    • Court of Appeal (Guyana)
    • 31 March 1976
  • DPP v Quilligan (No. 3)
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 1 January 1993
    ...E.R. 480. Attorney General v. Levison [1932] I.R. 158. Attorney General v. Linehan [1929] I.R. 19; (1929) 63 I.L.T.R. 100. Basto v. R. (1954) 91 C.L.R. 628. Berkeley v. Edwards [1988] I.R. 217. Byrne v. Grey [1988] I.R. 31. Chan Wie Kung v. R. [1967] 2 A.C. 160; [1967] 2 W.L.R. 352; [1967] ......
  • DPP v Conroy
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 31 July 1986
    ... ... 1959 OR 441 R V MCLAREN 1949 1 WWR 529 CONSTITUTION ART 38.5 CRIMINAL JUSTICE (EVIDENCE) ACT 1924 S1(f)(II) NA CHUN-KWAN V R 1974 HKLR 319 CONSTITUTION OF THE US 14TH AMDT CONSTITUTION ART 40.3 CONSTITUTION ART 40 AG V MCCABE 1927 IR 129 BASTO V R 91 CLR 628 WONG KAM-MING V R 1979 1 AER 939 ... 1 JUDGMENT delivered on the 31st day of July 1986by Finlay C.J. [Hederman Conc] ... 2 Charles Conroy, the Appellant, was convicted on the 18th January 1984 by the Central Criminal Court, of murder. He applied after ... ...
  • R v Mushtaq (Ashfaq Ahmed)
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 21 April 2005
    ...for the judge, weight a matter for the jury, is not only the law in the United Kingdom, it is the law in Australia ( Basto v The Queen (1954) 91 CLR 628), in Canada ( R v McAloon [1959] OR 441), and in the United States of America ( Lego v Toomey (1972) 404 US 12 In my respectful opinion Pa......
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2 books & journal articles
  • Subject Index
    • United Kingdom
    • International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 9-4, December 2005
    • 1 December 2005
    ...38Balabal v Air India [1988] 1 Ch 317.......... 13 3Bannon v R (1995) 185 CLR 1...................... 123Basto v The Queen (1954) 91 CLR 628 ..... 224Batson v Kentucky, 476 US 79 (1986)...... 3 01Beckles v United Kingdom (2003) 36 EHRR13 ...........................................................
  • Noticeboard
    • United Kingdom
    • International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 9-3, July 2005
    • 1 July 2005
    ...the Hutton approach which has given rise to no problems in practice and corresponds to current law in Australia (Basto v The Queen (1954) 91 CLR 628), Canada (R v [1959] OR 441) and the USA (Lego v Toome, 404 US 477 (1972)) and the law laid down by the Privy Council in Chan Wei Keung v R [1......

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