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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……
R v Shepherd – 1862
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendant was the mother of an eighteen year old girl who had died as a result of complications during childbirth. After going into labour……
R v Bourne – 1952
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Sydney Joseph Bourne (B) subjected his wife Adelaide Bourne (A) to bestiality by terrorising her into submission against her……
R v Hennigan
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Hennigan drove at eighty miles per hour and hit the side of a car, driven by Lowe, who was emerging from a turning in a road….
R v Bowen – 1996
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Bowen had obtained a number of electrical goods, over a series of visits to the value of £20,000. He had done so by applying for a number of ‘instant……
R v Ryan – 1996
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendant, Ryan, was discovered in the early hours of the morning stuck inside the window of an elderly person’s house and had to be removed by the fire brigade. He had managed only to get his head and one arm inside the window….
R v Hudson and Taylor
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Hudson and Taylor were two girls who were charged with perjury having given false evidence by failing to identify an individual……
R v Brown – 1985
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendant, Brown, broke a shop window and stuck the top half of his body through the hole while rummaging about inside the shop in order to steal the contents. His lower half remained outside the shop….
R v Hall – 1973
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendant travel agent received deposit monies from various clients to pay for flights to the United States. He paid the monies……
R v McNaughten – M’Naghten
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
M’Naughten murder and pleas of not guilty by reason of insanity. In January 1843, at the parish of Saint Martin, Middlesex, Daniel M’Naghten took a pistol and shot Edward Drummond, who he believed to the British Prime Minister Robert Pell, wounding him fatally….
R v Clarkson; R v Carroll; R v Dodd
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendants were drinking when they heard sounds indicating that a woman was being raped. They entered the room where the sounds……
R v Prince – 1875
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Where a statute is silent as to the mens rea for an offence, the court is not bound to read a mens rea requirement into the statute. The offence was one of strict liability as to age, therefore a mens rea of knowledge of the girl’s actual age was not required to establish the offence. …
R v Coates
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendant was a senior naval rating at the time of the incident and the complainant was a naval medical assistant, both working aboard a ship….
R v Nedrick – 1986
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendant Nedrick held a grudge against a woman. In the middle of the night he drove to her house before pouring petrol through her letter box and igniting it. The defendant, without warning anyone in the house then drove home….
R v Misra and Srivastava
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Two doctors were convicted of gross negligence manslaughters when their post-operative patient became infected with a staphylococcus aureus……
R v Donovan
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
It was established at trial that the appellant, Mr Donovan, had ‘induced’ the victim to accompany him to his garage, wherein he had proceeded to beat her with a cane in ‘circumstances of indecency’…
R v Morris – 1983
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendants were convicted of theft under s.1 of the Theft Act 1968 after switching the labels on products in a supermarket to obtain a lower price. One of the defendants was caught before he paid, while the other was only caught afterwards….
R v Smith – 2011
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
S, P and H challenged their conviction on the basis that the alleged offence was not known to the law because the heroin in question was unlawfully in the possession of the victim….
R v Miller [1983] 2 AC 161
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The court concluded that as he was responsible for having created the dangerous situation, the defendant was under a duty to take action to resolve it once he became aware of the fire….
R v Dalloway 1847
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Dalloway was standing on a horse and cart as it drove along a public road. Dalloway was not holding on to the reins as they were resting on the horse’s back. During his journey, a small child ran out in to the road in front of the cart and was killed by one of the wheels as it moved along….
R v Page – 1954
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
A British soldier, Harry Richard Page (HRP), killed an Egyptian national in Egypt and was convicted of murder of an Egyptian……
R v Kimsey – 1996
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Kimsey (K) and Osbourne (O) were driving at high speeds in extremely close convoy. Whilst doing so, there was an accident in which O’s car clipped a verge and span out of control, collided with the side of K’s car and went into the path of oncoming traffic….
R v Bailey – 1983
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Self-induced automatism defence unavailable to diabetic convicted of wounding with intent. The appellant (B) was convicted of wounding with intent. He claimed the defence of automatism caused by hypoglaecemia as a result of failing to take food after a dose of insulin….
R v Fiak – 2005
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
Fiak had been sitting in a car, parked outside his house, when he was approached by police officers who had suspected he was in……
R v Quayle
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The appellants appealed against convictions for the cultivation, production and possession of cannabis and cannabis resin….
R v Marangwanda
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendant was responsible for assisting in caring for two young children, as he was engaged in a romantic relationship……
R v Saik – 2006
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendant, Saik, operated a bureau de change near Marble Arch in London. Saik changed money that had been gained as proceeds of crime into……
R v Jones – 1987
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
There were six appellants to the appeal a conviction under s 20 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861. All had pleaded guilty to at least two……
R v Howe – 1987
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
In the first case, the two appellants, Howe and Bannister, and the victim were driven by M to an isolated area, where they assaulted the victim and M killed him. Similarly, the three jointly strangled another victim and a third victim managed to escape….
R v Elbekkay
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The appellant had been out for the evening drinking with the victim and her boyfriend. They returned to the victim’s flat and the victim retired to bed……
R v Mowatt
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendant and a friend were out late at night, and came across the victim, at which point the defendant knocked the victim……
R v Ong [2001] Cr App R (S) 117
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendant had planned to switch off the floodlights at a Premier League football game between Charlton and Liverpool……
R v C (Barry)
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendant was convicted on a number of counts of sexual and violent offences against four different women between the years of 1967-1987….
R v Lockley – 1995
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
In R v Lockley the defendant stole cans of beer from an off-licence. The shopkeeper tried to prevent him leaving the shop with the stolen items….
R v King
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendant had remarried while his previous marriage was still valid. He was prosecuted for bigamy contrary to section 57 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861…
R v HM Attorney-General for England and Wales – 2003
Article. Published: March 7, 2018
The defendant was a New Zealander and former SAS member. In 1992, one of his commanding officers wrote a book and included a chapter……
