Oblique Intention in UK Law

  • DPP v Smith
    • House of Lords
    ... ... Crime - Homicide - Intention to kill or cause grievous bodily harm - Presumption of intention - Extent ... ...
  • Gibbs, Commissioner of Police v Attorney-General et Al
    • Privy Council
    • 29 Enero 1998
    ... ... malice in this context is not used in the narrow sense of an intention to injure but in the broader sense that the defendant was not acting in e discharge of his public duty but from an illegitimate or oblique motive. In ( Glinski v. McIver [1962] A.C. at 766 ) Lord Devlin said ... ...
  • Gunton v Richmond-upon-Thames London Borough Council
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 03 Julio 1980
    ... ... conceivably be a different legal result where the repudiation is oblique and arises indirectly as, for example, where the employer seeks to change ... contract before the date for performance has arrived evinces an intention not to perform his part of the contract, he has committed no breach until ... ...
  • Thorner v Curtis and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 25 Marzo 2009
    ... ... bonus notice with the words "that's for my death duties" and other oblique remarks on subsequent occasions which indicated that Peter intended David ... conduct and language might have been consistent with a current intention rather than a definite assurance. But the judge found as a fact that these ... ...
  • The Ampthill Peerage
    • House of Lords
    • 1976
    ... ... and 1925 means, it was argued, merely “acting with an indirect, oblique or ulterior motive,” Christabel had an indirect, oblique or ulterior ... conduct to represent to another what is not true with the intention of inducing that other to act contrary to his own interest, or, sometimes, ... ...
  • Three Rivers District Council v Governor and Company of the Bank of England (No. 3)
    • House of Lords
    • 22 Marzo 2001
    ... ... public office as to other torts involving malice, knowledge or intention: Racz v. Home Office [1994] 2 A.C. 45 ... 22 (3) The third ... ...
  • Kenneth Allison Ltd and Others v A E Limehouse & Company
    • House of Lords
    • 17 Octubre 1991
    ... ... drastically to curtail it, they would surely have effected that intention directly and unambiguously rather than in the oblique fashion suggested by ... ...
  • DPP for Northern Ireland v Lynch
    • House of Lords
    • 12 Marzo 1975
    ... ... It raised a point concerning the intention which must be proved before there can be a conviction of aiding and ... ...
  • R v Gnango
    • Supreme Court
    • 14 Diciembre 2011
    ... ... the other and each foreseeing that the other has the reciprocal intention, and if ( 2) D1 mistakenly kills V in the course of the fight, in what ... Before such an oblique intention could form the basis of a jury's verdict, of course, precise ... ...
  • R v R [1991]
    • House of Lords
    • 23 Octubre 1991
    ... ... spoke to his wife on the telephone indicating that it was his intention also to see about a divorce. No divorce proceedings had, however, been ... would surely have dealt with them specifically and not in such an oblique fashion. In Reg. v. Chapman Donovan L.J. accepted at p. 102 that the ... ...
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