Tag Archives: Crime
Maye -v- The Queen; PC 1-Jul-2008
(Jamaica) The defendant appealed his conviction for murder. He said that he had intervened in a fight between his girlfriend and her brother and that the deceased was killed in self defence. There had been three trials; two of the … Continue reading
Filed under Commonwealth, Crime
Regina -v- Graham, Kansal, etc; CACD 25-Oct-1996
The court discussed when it was appropriate for the Court of Appeal to substitute other lesser convictions, after the main conviction had been declared unsafe.Held: After studying the authorities at length, the court felt that the various convictions should be … Continue reading
Filed under Crime
Director of Public Prosecutions -v- Dunn; QBD 1-Nov-2000
The prosecutor appealed after dismissal of the charges against the defendant as duplicitous. A neighbour couple had accused him of harassment against either or both of them. The magistrates accepted the plea on the basis that there were no two … Continue reading
Filed under Crime, Torts - Other
Regina -v- Crooks; CACD 18-Mar-2004
The defendant appealed a conviction in 2002 for the rape of his wife in 1970. He said that at the time that was not an offence.Held: The words which at one point appeared to make rape of a wife lawful … Continue reading
Filed under Crime, Human Rights
Regina -v- Crooks; CACD 18-Mar-2004
The defendant appealed a conviction in 2002 for the rape of his wife in 1970. He said that at the time that was not an offence.Held: The words which at one point appeared to make rape of a wife lawful … Continue reading
Filed under Crime, Human Rights
Phillips -v- Brown; QBD 20-Jun-1980
DONALDSON LJ: Mr. Phillips appeals by case stated against his conviction and a fine of £5 imposed by Mr. Loy, the Leeds Stipendiary Magistrates, in September 1978 for failure to comply with a School Attendance Order. It is not the … Continue reading
Regina -v- Brown (Gregory); HL 9-Feb-1996
The issue was whether ‘data’ within the Data Protection Act 1984 was limited to data in computer-readable form.Held: The offence of the ‘use’ of protected data required something beyond inspection on a computer screen including printout. There is a tension … Continue reading
Filed under Crime, Information
G -v- Secretary of State for the Home Department; SIAC 8-Feb-2007
Algeria is a country where torture is systematically practised by the DRS (Information and Security Department). No DRS officer has ever been prosecuted for it; and : ‘in the absence of [certain assurances from the Algerian Government] there would be … Continue reading
Filed under Crime, Human Rights, Immigration
Nicklinson -v- Ministry of Justice and Others; QBD 12-Mar-2012
The claimant suffered locked-in syndrome and sought relief in a form which would allow others to assist him in committing suicide. The court considered whether the case should be allowed to proceed rather than to be struck out as hopeless.Held: … Continue reading
Filed under Crime, Health, Human Rights
Fenton, Regina -v-; 1975
The defendant had shot four people in two different locations. He suffered a number of conditions, including paranoid psychopathy, which raised the possibility of diminished responsibility, although the jury had rejected that defence. He now appealed complaining that the jury … Continue reading
Filed under Crime
