Reginald Woolmington v Director for Public Prosecutions
Decided
23 May 1935
Citation(s)
[1935] UKHL 1 [1935] AC 462 (1936) 25 Cr App R 72
Legislation cited
Criminal Appeal Act 1907 s. 1 Criminal Appeal Act 1907 s. 4 Criminal Evidence Act 1898
Court membership
Judge(s) sitting
Viscount Sankey Lord Hewart Lord Atkin Lord Tomlin Lord Wright
Keywords
Burden of proof in crime
Intention and evidence of possible accident
Jury directions
Murder
Woolmington v DPP [1935] AC 462 is a landmark House of Lords case, where the presumption of innocence was re-consolidated (for application across the Commonwealth).
In criminal law the case identifies the metaphorical "golden thread" running through that domain of the presumption of innocence.[1]
^"What is the golden thread of criminal law?". Study.com. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
to as the "golden thread" in the criminal law by Lord Sankey LC in WoolmingtonvDPP: Throughout the web of the English criminal law one golden thread...
guilty". The principle of "beyond reasonable doubt" was expounded in WoolmingtonvDPP [1935] UKHL 1: Juries are always told that, if conviction there is...
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Subsequently, his conviction for murder and life sentence were upheld. WoolmingtonvDPP Murder in Australian law Malice aforethought Voluntariness Crimes...
by the definition of the offence. This point had been settled by Woolmingtonv. DPP in 1935. Principles were cited but no authorities in his judgement...
next two years, partly in response to German re-armament. 23 May – WoolmingtonvDPP, a landmark case decided on appeal in the House of Lords, reaffirms...
King or Queen, and the v stands for "versus". WoolmingtonvDPP [1935] UKHL 1, presumption of innocence Rice v Connolly [1966] 2 QB 414, right to refuse to...
proof, the onus is on the prosecution as established in WoolmingtonvDPP. For example, in R v Wang it was held that it was never permissible for a judge...
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well established under the common law; the much-celebrated case of WoolmingtonvDPP laid down the basic criminal law principle that it is the duty of...