The Board considered the application of the proviso in criminal appeals: ‘The test which an appeal court is to apply to the proviso was recently referred to by Viscount Dilhorne in Chung Kum Moey v Public Prosecutor for Singapore [1967] 2 AC 173, 185 quoting the classic passage by Lord Sankey in Woolmington v Director of Public Prosecutions [1935] AC 462, 482-483, whether ‘if the jury had been properly directed they would inevitably have come to the same conclusion’. Viscount Dilhorne also referred to Stirland v Director of Public Prosecutions [1944] AC 315, 321, where Lord Simon said that the provision assumed ‘a situation where a reasonable jury, after being properly directed would, on the evidence properly admissible, without doubt convict.”
Judges:
Lord Guest
Citations:
[1972] AC 100
Jurisdiction:
Australia
Criminal Practice
Updated: 14 May 2022; Ref: scu.231668