Law Offence in UK Law

  • Ivey v Genting Casinos (UK) Ltd (trading as Crockfords)
    • Supreme Court
    • 25 Octubre 2017
    ... ... ) repeated in section 5 the list of misbehaviour attracting a forfeit (now five times the winnings), and such was now recognised as a criminal offence attracting corporal punishment. The same Act, by section 2, enabled anyone who lost more than £10 at games, however fair, to recover it by civil ... ...
  • R v Rimmington; R v Goldstein (Harry Chaim)
    • House of Lords
    • 27 Octubre 2005
    ... ... The appellants contend that, as applied in their cases, the offence is too imprecisely defined, and the courts' interpretation of it too uncertain and unpredictable, to satisfy the requirements either of the common ... ...
  • Norris v Government of the United States of America
    • House of Lords
    • 12 Marzo 2008
    ... ... This is a statutory offence of strict liability. It does not require proof of fraud, deception or dishonesty, and count 1 of the indictment contains no such allegation. Among ... ...
  • HM Revenue and Customs v Total Network SL
    • House of Lords
    • 12 Marzo 2008
    ... ... means on which they rely in their re-re-amended Particulars of Claim are (a) the commission by Redlaw and/or Alldech of the common law offence of cheating the revenue and (b) the making by Alldech of a fraudulent misrepresentation that the transactions had a genuine economic purpose and that ... ...
  • Connelly v DPP
    • House of Lords
    • 21 Abril 1964
    ... ... Ever since the passing of the Criminal Appeal Act, 1908, Parliament has persistently refused to permit a retrial in respect of the same offence after a verdict of guilty has been quashed on any ground by the Court of Criminal Appeal. Refusal to allow a new trial has always been put on the ... ...
  • R v Brown Lucas Jaggard Laskey Carter (Conjoined Appeals)
    • House of Lords
    • 11 Marzo 1993
    ... ... 7 In the present case each appellant pleaded guilty to an offence under this section when the trial judge ruled that consent of the victim was no defence ... 8 By section 20 of the Act of 1861, ... ...
  • R v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate, ex parte Pinochet Ugarte (No. 3)
    • House of Lords
    • 24 Marzo 1999
    ... ... territory of a foreign state, a designated Commonwealth country or a colony which, if it occurred in the United Kingdom, would constitute an offence punishable with imprisonment for a term of 12 months, or any greater punishment, and which, however described in the law of the foreign state, ... ...
  • Gillick v West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 20 Diciembre 1984
    ... ... the provisions of the Criminal Law are such that any doctor giving contraceptive advice or treatment will either commit a criminal offence or will be acting against a clearly defined public policy ... 30 With this preliminary I turn to these two matters considering, in relation to ... ...
  • R v Dytham
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 18 Julio 1979
    ... ... of justice, in that you misconducted yourself whilst acting as an officer of justice in that you being present and a witness to a criminal offence namely a violent assault upon one … Stubbs by three others deliberately failed to carry out your duty as a police constable by wilfully omitting to ... ...
  • Tesco Supermarkets Ltd v Nattrass
    • House of Lords
    • 31 Marzo 1971
    ... ... offered at a price less than that at which they are in fact being offered he shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, be guilty of an offence." ... 4 It is not disputed that that section applies to this case. The Appellants relied on section 24(1) which provides: ... ...
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