R v Abrahams

JurisdictionVictoria
Year1895
Date1895
CourtCourt of Appeal
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3 cases
  • R v Howson
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • July 3, 1981
    ...judgment after the passage to which I have referred by approving certain passages from a 19th century decision of an Australian court, R. v. Abrahams (1895) 21 V.L.R. 343. The facts of that case were as follows. During the trial of prisoners for a misdemeanour, they suffered from fits and r......
  • R v Jones (Robert) (No. 2)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • March 9, 1972
    ...had deliberately jumped his bail. 11 The position is admirably stated in a late nineteenth century case in the Victorian Courts, The Queen v. Abrahams reported in (1895) 21 Victorian Law Reports 343. I would quote from two of the judgments, one of Mr. Justice Williams at page 347, the other......
  • R v Jones
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • February 20, 2002
    ...or respectably) be continued to the end in his presence. This may be because of genuine but intermittent illness of the defendant (as in R v Abrahams (1895) 21 VLR 343 and R v Howson (1981) 74 CrAppR 172); or misbehaviour (as in R v Berry (1897) 104 LT Jo 110 and R v Browne (1906) 70 JP 472......

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