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the Court certified that a point of law of general public
importance was involved and granted the Crown leave to
appeal to the House of Lords.
[Regina v Hudson; Regina v Taylor; Court of Appeal;
The
Times,
19th March 1971.]
National Insurance stamps issued pursuant to the regulations
made under the National Insurance Act, 1965, of the United
Kingdom were held to be "valuable securities" and "docu-
ments evidencing the title of any person to any interest in any
public fund of any part of her majesty's dominions" within the
meaning of Section 2 of the Forgery Ordinance, Cap. 209, of
Hongkong.
Their Lordships allowed an appeal on a point of law by the
Attorney General of Hongkong against the judgment of the
Supreme Court of Hongkong.
[Attorney General of Hongkong v Pat Chiuk-wah and others;
Privy Council;
The Times,
23rd March 1971.
After dismissing an appeal by Arthur Selby, coin dealer,
of Ben Jonson Road, E., against conviction under the Coinage
Offences Act, 1936, their Lordships certified that the meaning
of "intent to utter" in Section 5 (3) was a point of law of
general public importance and gave leave to appeal to the
House of Lords.
The appellant had been found guilty at Inner London
Sessions (deputy chairman: Mr. Murray Buttress) last Sept.
on a charge of having in his possession forty-five false or
counterfeit coins resembling current gold coins, knowing
them to be false or counterfeit, and with intent to utter or put
off the coins or any of them.
[Regina v Selby; Court of Appeal;
The Times,
2nd April
1971.]
Reasons were given for the dismissal on February 23rd of an
application by Daniel Twomey, aged twenty-eight, for
leave to appeal against conviction at Warwickshire Assizes
(before Mr. Justice Lawton) of the murder of James Reed.
Their Lordships had heard oral evidence from a witness in
accordance with Section 23 (2) of the Criminal Appeal Act,
1968, which provides that the Court of Appeal "shall" exercise
its power of receiving tendered evidence if "(b) . . . satisfied
that . . . there is a reasonable explanation for failure to adduce
it" at the trial.
[Regina v Twomey; Court of Appeal;
The Times,
11th
March 1971.]
Criminal Injuries
(Before Lord Parker, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Justice
Widgery and Mr. Justice Bridge) A woman bystander who was
injured when an arrest was being attempted was held to be
entitled to compensation from the Criminal Injuries Compen-
sation Board. It was not necessary that the bystander should
be participating in the arrest.
[Regina v Criminal Injuries Compensation Board; Q.B.D.;
1st April 1971.]
Damages
The Court increased to £62,183 from £45,757 an award of
damages made to a plaintiff gravely injured in a road acci-
dent. Their Lordships rejected the plaintiffs contentions
(which would have resulted in an award of over £90,000)
that account ought to be taken of the likelihood of inflation
continuing, and, further, that the damages ought to be assessed
by actuarial calculation instead of by the conventional method
of multiplicand and multiplier.
[Mitchell v Mulholland and Another; Court of Appeal;
The Times,
19th March 1971]
Evidence
Contemporary hospital notes made by doctors and nurses about-
a patient in 1965 defeated a claim for damages by a plaintiff
seriously injured in a car accident who pleaded that for thirty-
two days after it he was a person under the disability of
unsoundness of mind such as to render him incapable of
managing his affairs, and that therefore time should not run
against him under the Limitation Acts.
[Penrose v Marsfield; Court of Appeal;
The Times,
19th
March 1971.]
See under
Crime;
Regina v Twomey; Court of Appeal;
The
Times,
11th March 1971.
Family
Lloyd-Jones J., in the first defended divorce suit in which Sec-
tion 2 (1) (a) of the Divorce Reform Act, 1969, had been
construed, held that in that sub-section, which empowers the
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