Marital Rape in UK Law

  • R v R [1991]
    • House of Lords
    • 23 October 1991
    ... ... Crown Court on 30 July 1990, upon his pleas of guilty, of attempted rape and of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. The alleged victim in ... Court of Justiciary in Scotland recently considered the supposed marital exemption in rape in that country. In two earlier cases, H.M. Advocate v ... ...
  • R v R (Rape: Marital Exemption)
    • House of Lords
    • 23 October 1991
  • R v Millberry (William Christopher)
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 09 December 2002
    ... ... Crime - Sexual offences - Rape - Victim acquainted with or previously involved in consensual sexual ... allowed boys under 14 to be convicted of rape; the recognition of marital rape as an offence ( R v R [ 1992 ] 1 AC 599 ), the Criminal ... ...
  • R v R [1991]
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 26 January 1994
    ... ... Crime - Sexual offences - Rape - Husband and wife living apart - Husband attempting sexual intercourse ... Popkin ( 1794 ) 1 Hag. Ecc. 765n ... Reg. v. C. (Rape: Marital Exemption) [ 1991 ] 1 All E.R. 755 ... Reg. v. Chapman [ 1959 ] ... ...
  • R v C. (Rape: Marital Exemption)
    • Crown Court
  • R v R -- (Rape: Marital Exemption)
    • House of Lords
  • R v J. (Rape: Marital Exemption)
    • Crown Court
  • R v R (Rape: Marital Exemption)
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
  • R v Immigration Appeal Tribunal, ex parte Shah
    • House of Lords
    • 25 March 1999
    ... ... Similarly, a woman who makes an accusation of rape is at great risk. Even Pakistan statute law discriminate against such ... 6 The appellant is 43. Her husband turned her out of the marital home in Pakistan. She arrived in the United Kingdom in 1992 and gave birth ... ...
  • Norris v Government of the United States of America
    • House of Lords
    • 12 March 2008
    ... ... , it was open to the courts in this country to extend the offence of rape to a case of a husband forcing his cohabiting wife to have sex with him, ... The first was that a gradual change in the law on the topic of marital rape could have been perceived in the case law over the years preceding ... ...
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