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R v Savage
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendant was charged with unlawful and malicious wounding contrary to Offences Against the Person Act 1861, s 20. The defendant had thrown a……
R v Church – 1966
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Mr Church and the victim were in a van for sexual purposes. The victim started mocking him and a fight ensued. He knocked the victim semi-conscious. After his attempts to rouse her proved unsuccessful, he panicked, thought the victim was dead and threw her into the river. …
R v Ireland and Burstow
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Can psychiatric injury be considered bodily harm, and whether ‘inflicted’ ought be interpreted as requiring physical force. The defendant and victim were engaged in a short romantic relationship, which the victim ended. …
R v Thomas – 1985
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
A school caretaker was convicted on two counts of indecent assault on female students. The first count concerned an 11-year-old girl’s allegation that the caretaker rubbed the bottom of her skirt and lifted it on two occasions, yet with no witnesses….
R v Griffiths
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendant was a seller of limes who entered into a conspiracy with seven lime farmers to defraud the Ministry of Agriculture……
R v Pagett – 1983
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The appellant shot at a police officer who was trying to arrest him, and subsequently attempted to use a pregnant teenage girl standing nearby as a human shield to defend himself against retaliation by the officer….
R v Galliano – 1996
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
G was charged with the murder of his wife, A. There was evidence that either G killed A himself, or that a killer carried out the……
R v Hennessy – 1989
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Diabetes and defences – automatism or insanity in hyperglycaemic cases. The appellant (a diabetic) was apprehended while driving a stolen car. He later collapsed at the police station it became apparent that he was having a diabetic episode….
R v Hampden – Summary
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Ship money was a type of tax originating from medieval times. It was historically collected as part of the Royal Prerogative from coastal……
R v Barnes – 2004
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Criminal law – Assault – Inflicting grievous bodily harm in the course of sport. The appellant was an amateur footballer. He was playing a football match, went in for a tackle and seriously injured his opponent’s leg. …
R v Steer
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Steer went to his business partner’s property rang the doorbell and after no answer, fired a rifle at the bedroom and sitting room windows and the door……
R v Kelly and Lindsay – 1998
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The first defendant (K) had access to the Royal College of Surgeons to take drawings of anatomical specimens. The second defendant……
R v Smith – 1959
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Causation – The defendant was a soldier who stabbed one of his comrades during a fight in an army barracks. The victim was taken to receive medical attention, but whilst being carried to the hospital was dropped twice by those carrying him….
R v Hayward
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
A husband and wife had an argument that led to the husband chasing his wife out into the street. The wife collapsed during this altercation and died….
R v Evans – 2009
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Manslaughter by gross negligence – duty of care. Evans purchased heroin and gave it to her half-sister who later self-ingested the drug. Evans recognised that the victim had symptoms akin to those of an overdose and remained with her mother and the victim, without calling for medical assistance as they feared getting into trouble….
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….
