Justice and PoliceMacmillan and Company, 1885 - 176 strán (strany) |
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Strana 127 - heard the evidence do you wish to say anything in answer to the " charge ? You are not obliged to say anything unless you desire to do " so, but whatever you say will be taken down in writing and may be
Strana 103 - Campbell in his judgment made the following very significant observations :"No one can suppose that Lord Cottenham could be, in the remotest degree, influenced by the interest that he had in this concern; but my Lords, it is of the last importance that the maxim that no man is to be a judge in his own cause should be held sacred.
Strana 37 - Whereas the system of our courts of equity is a laboured connected system, governed by established rules, and bound down by precedents, from which they do not depart, although the reason of some of them may perhaps be liable to objection.
Strana 104 - And it will have a most salutary effect on these tribunals when it is known that this High Court of last resort, in a case in which the Lord Chancellor of England had an interest, considered that his decree was on that account a decree not according to law, and should be set aside.
Strana 89 - ... various Acts of Parliament. The summary jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace is, therefore, entirely the creation of statutes, and is for the most part quite modern. Formerly Justices could deal, out of Quarter Sessions, only with non-indictable cases. Writing in 1885, the late Professor Maitland said: "Only in the present century have we begun to think of the summary jurisdiction as normal, and to regulate by general statutes the mode in which it must be exercised
Strana 7 - Our courts are said to be more open to admit actions founded upon foreign transactions than those of any other European country ; but there are restrictions in respect of locality which exclude some foreign causes of action altogether, namely, those which would be local if they arose in England, such as trespass to land : Doulson v.
Strana 148 - If a court of summary jurisdiction upon the hearing of a charge against a proprietor, publisher, editor, or any person responsible for the publication of a newspaper...
Strana 116 - He may arrest any person whom he suspects on reasonable grounds to have committed a felony, if one has actually been committed. 3. Any constable or sheriff may arrest any person whom he suspects, on reasonable grounds, of having committed a felony, whether in fact a felony has been actually committed or not.
Strana 117 - The common law did not authorise the arrest of persons guilty or suspected of misdemeanours, except in cases of an actual breach of the peace either by an affray or by violence to an individual. In such cases the arrest had to be made not so much for the purpose of bringing the offender to justice as in order to preserve the peace, and the right to arrest was accordingly limited to cases in which the person to be arrested was taken in the fact or immediately after its commission.
Strana 156 - Assize, the duty of trying and determining within any place or district specially fixed for that purpose by such Commission, any causes or matters, or any questions or...