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People (Attorney General) v Byrne

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JurisdictionIreland
Judgment Date01 January 1976
Date01 January 1976
Docket Number[No. 45 of 1973]
CourtCourt of Criminal Appeal
(C.C.A.)
The People (Attorney General)
and
Byrne

Jury to be satisfied of guilt beyond reasonable doubt - Witnesses - Duty of prosecution.

In charging the jury at a criminal trial, the judge must inform them that to support a conviction they have to be satisfied of the guilt of the accused beyond reasonable doubt; it is helpful if the judge contrasts that degree of proof with the standard applicable in a civil action. It is also essential that the jury should be told that the accused is entitled to the...

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  • DPP v Hannaway, Shannon, Hannaway, Nooney, O'Brien
    • Ireland
    • Court of Appeal (Ireland)
    • 6 February 2020
    ...reject that notion. In doing so we acknowledge and accept the “two views” rule, set forth in the seminal case of People (A.G.) v Byrne [1974] IR 1, which is to the effect that where two views on any part of the case are possible on the evidence, the tribunal of fact should adopt that which......
  • DPP v Byrne
    • Ireland
    • Court of Criminal Appeal
    • Invalid date
  • DPP v Fergal Cagney
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 27 July 2009
    ...discussed in the Court of Criminal Appeal (the judgment is that of Kenny J.) in The People (Attorney General) v. Douglas Byrne [1974] IR 1. The Court followed the High Court of Australia arriving at the following formulation, on p.9: "The correct charge to a jury is that they must be satis......
  • DPP v Fergal Cagney
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 27 July 2009
    ...discussed in the Court of Criminal Appeal (the judgment is that of Kenny J.) in The People (Attorney General) v. Douglas Byrne [1974] IR 1. The Court followed the High Court of Australia arriving at the following formulation, on p.9: "The correct charge to a jury is that they must be satis......
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1 books & journal articles
  • The Chaos of Reasonable Doubt
    • Ireland
    • Trinity College Law Review No. XVII-2014, January 2014
    • 1 January 2014
    ...and to Marc Tiernan. Last and foremost, to David Byrne LLB (Dubl) read this article first. All errors remain the author’s own. 1 Woolmington v DPP [1935] AC 462, at 481 [hereinafter Woolmington]. 2 [1935] AC 462. 3 As much is evident from recent incidents such as the collapse of the Vicky P......

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