Sinclair v R
| Jurisdiction | Australia Federal only |
| Neutral Citation | 1946-1223 HCA D,[1946] HCA 55 |
| Year | 1946 |
| Date | 1946 |
| Court | High Court |
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16 cases
- Conway v R
- Morris v R
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Tofilau v The Queen
...judges have thought it better to reject it for the due administration of justice … .’ Dixon J quoted those words with approval in Sinclair v The King342. 291 Nemo tenetur se ipsum prodere. Thirdly, if an accused is convicted solely or largely on the basis of a confession, in some minds a qu......
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Admissibility of confession evidence: Principles of hearsay and the rule of voluntariness
...402 [3] (Gleeson CJ). The strict and automatic nature of the exclusion has sometimes been referred to asa ‘rule of policy’: Sinclair vR(1946) 73 CLR 316 (Dixon J) citing Sumner LJ in Ibrahim, n. 11 above at 610–11, where he saidthe policy was ‘not that the law presumes such statements to be......