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R v Cato – 1976
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Mr Cato and the victim prepared their own syringes and then injected each other with heroin. The victim died. Mr Cato was convicted of manslaughter and administering a noxious thing contrary to s. 23 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861….
R v Lamb 1967
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Case Summary of R v Lamb 1967 2 QB 981. Involuntary Manslaughter. The appellate judgment of R v Lamb 1967 2 QB 981 (Lamb) clarifies the requisite elements required to satisfy any of the forms of involuntary manslaughter….
R v Instan – 1893
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Instan was cared for and maintained by her seventy-three-year-old aunt who was the deceased in this case. The deceased was healthy until shortly before her death before she contracted gangrene in her leg which prevented her from moving and caring for herself….
R v Johnson – 2007
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
J was convicted of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. Following his arrest, he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia……
R v Collins – 1973
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendant, Collins, climbed up to the window of a young woman at 4:00 a.m. When she awoke and saw him on her window sill. She mistook him for her boyfriend and beckoned him in. …
R v Chan Fook
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The appellant, Mr Chan-Fook, had accused the victim, a lodger, of the theft of his fiancé’s engagement ring. The appellant, after striking the victim……
R v Bunch – 2013
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendant, Bunch, murdered the victim in front of her husband by stabbing her more than 20 times after the relationship between the two ended….
R v Ciccarelli
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The incident took place at a house party with the complainant in attendance, as well as the defendant and his girlfriend. They had met three……
R v Gurpinar; R v Kojo-Smith and Caton
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Mr Gurpinar and Mr Kojo-Smith were convicted of murder. Mr Gurpinar claimed self-defence, accident and lack of intent to cause serious injury……
R v Burgess – 1991
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The appellant (B) was charged with wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm. His defence was that during the event he was sleep……
R v Constanza – 1997
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Whether words alone could constitute an assault and the temporal element of fear of immediate violence. A man was convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm of a female ex-colleague. …
R v Lowe – 1973
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The connection between “wilful neglect” under s.1(1) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 and manslaughter by negligence. Mr Lowe, of low intelligence, did not call a doctor to his sick infant child. The child died from dehydration and gross emaciation….
R v Foreign Secretary ex parte Abbasi
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The first claimant was a British national who had been captured by United States forces in Afghanistan and detained in Guantanamo Bay……
R v Hardie – 1985
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Mr Hardie was charged with arson under ss 1(2) and (3) of the Criminal Damage Act 1971 (CDA), for allegedly intending to damage a woman’s……
R v Gomez – 1993
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Dishonest appropriation of property by using stolen cheques to mislead shop manager. The defendant, Gomez (G) was an assistant shop manager. G colluded with two accomplices who were in possession of stolen cheques….
R v Poulton – 1832
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
A mother strangled her newborn baby, and was charged with the murder. Three medical men testified before a jury that a child can die during……
R v Shillam – 2013
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Shillam bought cocaine from R, in order to sell. He had been observed by police surveillance units meeting with R and was arrested driving a van and……
R v G (2003) – Recklessness in Criminal Law
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Prior to the case of R v G, there were two main approaches to recklessness. The first was derived from the case of R v Cunningham were the interpretation of recklessness was when the defendant foresees the risk of harm yet does the act anyway….
R v Clarence
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendant, Charles James Clarence (CJC) was charged for unlawfully inflicting grievous bodily harm upon his wife Selina Clarence (SC) and……
R v Golds
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Golds admitted to killing his partner and prior to the killing he had sexually assaulted her. The question for the jury was whether he was guilty of murder or manslaughter by virtue of diminished responsibility under s. 2(1) Homicide Act 1957. …
R v Home Secretary, ex p Northumbria Police Authority
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Public disturbances some years earlier resulted in the Home Office opting to create a stock of CS gas (commonly known as riot control gas)……
R v Dawson and James – 1976
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
One defendant pushed the victim who lost his balance enabling the second defendant to steal his wallet. The two defendants were convicted……
R v Blaue – 1975
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
After the victim refused the defendant’s sexual advances the defendant stabbed the victim four times. Whist the victim was admitted to hospital she required medical treatment which involved a blood transfusion….
R v Clinton – 2012
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
In the first case, Clinton killed his wife in their family home because of her sexual infidelity. He was convicted of murder and arson by the Crown Court. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with minimum specified term of 26 years….
R v R – 1992
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendant married his wife (complainant) in August 1984. After the marriage did not work, she moved out in October 1989 and took her son to live with her parents. At the time of the incident in November 1989, they were separated but not legally divorced….
R v Taaffe – 1984
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Paul Desmond Taafe (T) was enlisted by a third party in Holland to import cannabis into England, which was prohibited to import under the……
R v Brind 1991 | Case Summary
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The applicants sought a judicial review of directives issued by the Home Secretary. The directives placed limits on the broadcasting permission……
R v Cheshire – 1991
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Chain of causation – Death in hospital following shooting. Cheshire shot a man during the course of an argument. The victim was taken to hospital to have surgery and shortly after developed respiratory issues….
R v Malcherek and Steel
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Malcherek stabbed his wife in the abdomen. She was treated for the wound and a few days later she collapsed in hospital. She subsequently had surgery to remove a blood clot during which her heart stopped beating for thirty minutes before it was restarted by the doctors again….
R v Miller – 1954
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendant, Mr Miller, had been the husband of the victim who, at the time of the alleged offence, had left the respondent and filed……
R v Flattery – 1877
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendant, John Flattery (JF) posed as a medical doctor and surgeon. The complainant, a young woman aged 19, consulted JF with respect to an illness she was suffering, accompanied by her mother….
R v Sharp (David Bruce) – 1987
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Sharp joined a gang of robbers that he knew possessed and used firearms. He participated in a robbery of a post office, in which the leader……
R v Clouden – 1987
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendant approached the victim from behind whilst she was carrying a shopping basket in her left hand. He wrenched the basket down from her grasp and ran off with it….
R v Inglis
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Murder – Mercy killing as a mitigating factor for sentencing under the Criminal Justice Act 2003 Schedule 21. The appellant, Frances Inglis (F), was convicted of murdering her son Thomas (T). T was in a vegetative state due to serious head injuries….
R v Calhaem
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendant was convicted of murder under s.8 of the Accessories and Abettors Act 1861. She had counselled Z to murder the victim….
R v Horncastle and Others 2009
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Case Summary of R v Horncastle and others [2009] UKSC 14 (SC). Hearsay evidence and Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). R v Horncastle and others was an English legal case concerning the rules on hearsay evidence….
R v Quick [1973] QB 910
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The appellant (a nurse at a hospital) was a diabetic who suffered from hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar). He had taken insulin in the morning for his condition but had not eaten much during the day and had imbibed alcohol….
R v Stewart [2009] 1 WLR 2507 Case Summary
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Case Summary of R v Stewart [2009] 1 WLR 2507. Issues surrounding intoxication as a defence…
R v Ireland – 1998
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Can silence suffice for a charge of assault and is psychiatric harm sufficient for ABH. The Defendant in this case consistently called three separate women over the course of three months….
R v Slingsby – 1995
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendant, Simon Slingsby, penetrated the complainant’s vagina and rectum with his fingers, accidentally cutting her with the signet ring he was wearing. The complainant did not notice the internal cuts, which later became infected, causing the complainant to develop septicaemia and die….
R v Hall – 1985
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendant, Hall, was accused of handling stolen property. He denied knowing that it was stolen, stating only that he was suspicious of the property……
R v Gotts – 1982
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Gotts, a sixteen-year-old boy, tried to kill his mother as he claimed that his father had threatened to shoot him unless he did so. Gotts stabbed his mother and caused serious injuries from which she survived….
R v Tabassum – 2000
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The appellant had deceived a number of women into participating in what was claimed to be a breast cancer survey, for the purposes of helping……
R v Latimer – 1886
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Doctrine of Transferred Malice. The defendant was in an argument with another in a pub. The argument escalated and the defendant attempted to hit the other man with his belt, but missed….
R v Secretary of State for Wales
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The appellant was the owner of a Grade II listed building which was subject to a notice of removal in respect of a carillon……
R v Rimmington – 2006
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Rimmington, the defendant, sent 538 separate postal packages to individuals. These were of a crude, racist and obscene nature……
R v Franklin – 1883
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Mr Franklin took up a larger box from Brighton Pier and threw it into the sea. The victim was swimming underneath in the sea at the time and was struck by the box and died….
R v Geddes – 1996
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Gary William Geddes (G), 29, was discovered in the toilets of a school to which he had no connection, with a rucksack. When leaving the school……
R v Lewis
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
John Lewis (J), a French-American seaman, injured a German man (G) on board an American ship on the high seas. G died in hospital……
R v Bounekhla
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendant was convicted of three counts of sexual assault after he deliberately and surreptitiously ejaculated on women while dancing……
