Homicide or Murder in UK Law
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Hyam v DPP
... ... to an accused person in order to find him guilty of the crime of murder. Is it simply the intention to kill or cause grievous bodily harm (in the ... This remained the law until 1957, when, by section 1 of the Homicide Act of that year, the doctrine of constructive malice in the above sense ... ...
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DPP for Northern Ireland v Lynch
... ... has to be proved before an accused person can be found guilty of murder by having aided and abetted. Save as to one matter to which I will later ... there are lesser degrees of heinousness, even of involvement in homicide, seems beyond doubt. An accessory before the fact, or an aided or abettor, ... ...
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R v Jogee
... ... The appellants Jogee and Ruddock were each convicted of murder after directions to the jury in which the trial judges sought to apply the ... one of them): "… the doctrine of constructive homicide … does not apply where the only evidence is that the parties were ... ...
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R v Powell (Anthony Glassford); R v English (Philip); R v Daniels (Antonio Eval)
... ... to this House has shown how badly our country needs a new law of homicide, or a new law of punishment for homicide, or preferably both. The judges ... The first is the mental element sufficient for murder, i.e. an intention to kill or to cause really serious bodily injury. Only ... ...
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R v Howe; R v Bannister; R v Burke; R v Clarkson
... ... the four men of two murders (Elgar and Pollitt) and a conspiracy to murder (Redfern, an intended victim who escaped in time). The three counts ... But in England at least it has a conceptual basis defined in the Homicide Act 1957 which is totally distinct from that of duress if duress be ... ...
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Mancini v DPP
... ... the Appellant, Antonio Mancini, was found guilty by the jury of the murder of Harry Distleman, and was sentenced to death by the presiding judge, Mr ... cool, and (2) to take into account the instrument with which the homicide was effected: for to retort, in the heat of passion induced by ... ...
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R v Moloney
... ... The appeal must be allowed. The verdict of murder must be set aside. A verdict of manslaughter must be substituted. The case ... 41 The Homicide Act of 1957, by section 1(1) abolished what used to be called constructive ... ...
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R v Camplin
... ... At Camplin's trial for murder before Boreham J. his only defence was that of provocation so as to reduce ... be directed to consider the question, under section 3 of the Homicide Act 1957, whether the provocation was enough to make a reasonable man do ... ...
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Attorney General's Reference (No. 3 of 1994)
... ... LORD MUSTILL My Lords, ... 2 Murder is widely thought to be the gravest of crimes. One could expect a ... This is not so in England, where the law of homicide is permeated by anomaly, fiction, misnomer and obsolete reasoning. One ... ...
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R v Church
... ... the appellant, having been indicted for and acquitted of the murder of Sylvia Jeannette Nott, was found guilty of manslaughter and was ... we are here leaving entirely out of account those ingredients of homicide which might justify a verdict of manslaughter on the grounds of (a) ... ...
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