Category Archives: Crime
Regina -v- Soul; CACD 1980
The appellant, had been convicted of conspiring to cause a public nuisance had agreed with others to secure the unlawful release of a restricted Broadmoor patient.Held: The appeal failed. The court rejected an argument, based on R v Madden that … Continue reading
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Lloyd -v- Director of Public Prosecutions; QBD 1992
Mr Lloyd had parked his car in a private car park with five large notices boards located at the entrance to and exit of this private car park positioned at eye-level for car drivers. All those notices warned that unauthorised … Continue reading
Filed under Crime, Torts - Other
Regina -v- Pierre Bouchereau; ECJ 27-Oct-1977
Europa The different language versions of a community text must be given a uniform interpretation and hence in the case of divergence between the versions the provision in question must be interpreted by reference to the purpose and general scheme … Continue reading
Filed under Crime, European, Immigration
Laskey, Jaggard and Brown -v- The United Kingdom; ECHR 19-Feb-1997
A prosecution for sado-masochist acts was a necessary invasion of privacy to protect health. The Court found no violation where applicants were imprisoned as a result of sado-masochistic activities captured on video tape when police obtained possession of them. Although … Continue reading
Filed under Crime, Human Rights
Regina -v- Sheppard; HL 1981
The section made it an offence for anyone having care of a child to wilfully neglect the child ‘in a manner likely to cause him unnecessary suffering or injury to health’.Held: The section speaks of an act or omission that … Continue reading
Jaggard -v- Dickinson; QBD 1980
The defendant broke two windows and damaged a curtain in the house of a stranger. She was drunk. She was charged under the 1971 Act, but she raised her honest but drunken and mistaken belief that the house belonged to … Continue reading
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Regina -v- Brown etc; CACD 15-Apr-1992
The defendants appealed against their convictions for offences under the 1861 Act of assaults inflicting injury. They said that as sado-masochists, they had mutually consented to the assaults and that no offences had been commited, but pleaded gulty after the … Continue reading
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Beatty -v- Gilbanks; CA 1882
A lawful Salvation Army march attracted disorderly opposition and was therefore the occasion of a breach of the peace.Held: It could not be found a case of unlawful assembly against the leaders of the Salvation Army. Accepting that a person … Continue reading
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Hodgson, Regina -v-; CACD 18-Mar-2009
The defendant appealed against his conviction for murder.Held: The appeal succeeded. After many years in prison, the original exhibits had been located and subjected to DNA analysis which proved that the defendant could not, despite his confession, have committed the … Continue reading
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Regina -v- Z (Attorney General for Northern Ireland’s Reference); HL 19-May-2005
The defendants appealed their convictions for being members of proscribed organisations. They were members of the ‘Real IRA’, but only the IRA was actually proscribed.Held: The appeals failed. In construing an Act of Parliament it may be of assistance to … Continue reading
Filed under Crime, Northern Ireland
