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An offender had absconded with a child and was to be prosecuted for sex offences against her. The police circulated all the journalists who had had contact to say that an identification of the defendant would also identify the girl. The defendant here, the editor of a magazine was not so informed. She published the … Continue reading O’Riordan v Director of Public Prosecutions: Admn 19 May 2005
The defendant appealed sentences of 7 years for indecent assaults on young girls. He was a policeman running a youth club. Certain of the allegations related to times when the maximum sentence was two years, but the defendant’s pleas specifically related to events after the new provisions. Held: The offence of indecent assault is an … Continue reading Regina v Cairns: CACD 28 Oct 1997
Appeal from conviction of historic sexual abuse. Held: Granted. Judges: Lord Burnett of Maldon LCJ, Sweeney J, Sir Roderick Evans Citations: [2019] EWCA Crim 2100 Links: Bailii Statutes: Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992 Jurisdiction: England and Wales Crime Updated: 16 September 2022; Ref: scu.645458
Appeal against conviction for sexual assaults refused. Judges: Pitchford LJ, Treacy J, Kramer QC J Citations: [2011] EWCA Crim 730 Links: Bailii Statutes: Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992 1 Jurisdiction: England and Wales Crime Updated: 04 September 2022; Ref: scu.431262
Citations: [2017] EWCA Crim 1627 Links: Bailii Statutes: Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992 Jurisdiction: England and Wales Criminal Practice Updated: 02 April 2022; Ref: scu.601859
[2016] EWCA Crim 1048 Bailii Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992 England and Wales Crime Updated: 20 January 2022; Ref: scu.567777
Treacy LJ, weeney, Picken JJ [2015] EWCA Crim 1579 Bailii Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992 England and Wales Criminal Sentencing Updated: 04 January 2022; Ref: scu.553263
The appellant, accused of several rapes but found unfit to plead and made subject to a hospital order, appealed saing that his police interview had been wrongly admitted, and that the judge had failed to give a Lucas direction. Fulford LJ, Cox J, Wait J [2013] EWCA Crim 2329 Bailii Sexual Offences Act 2003, Criminal … Continue reading Swinbourne, Regina v: CACD 10 Dec 2013
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Appeals were brought complaining as to the apparent reversal of the burden of proof in road traffic cases and in cases under the Terrorism Acts. Was a legal or an evidential burden placed on a defendant? Held: Lord Bingham of Cornhill said: ‘The overriding concern is that a trial should be fair, and the presumption … Continue reading Sheldrake v Director of Public Prosecutions; Attorney General’s Reference No 4 of 2002: HL 14 Oct 2004
H has no right to sexual intercourse with W – rape The defendant appealed against his conviction for having raped his wife, saying that intercourse with his wife was necessarily lawful, and therefore outside the statutory definition of rape. Due to the matrimonial difficulties, the wife had left their matrimonial house and gone to her … Continue reading Regina v R: HL 23 Oct 1991