Rape Offence in UK Law

  • Julian Assange v Swedish Prosecution Authority
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 05 Diciembre 2011
    ... ... 4. Rape On 17 August 2010, in the home of the injured party [SW] in ... As regards offence 4, the conduct, if fairly and accurately described, would not have ... ...
  • R v R [1991]
    • House of Lords
    • 23 Octubre 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 ct of each offence was the appellant's wife. The circumstances of the case were these. The ... ...
  • R v Billam
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 21 Febrero 1986
    ... ... us today a number of cases where there has been, a conviction for rape or attempted rape, in order to give us an opportunity to restate ... App. R. (S) 241 ... Although on the facts that offence amounted to rape in the legal sense, the Court observed that it did not do ... ...
  • R v A (No 2)
    • House of Lords
    • 17 Mayo 2001
    ... ... trial in the Crown Court on an indictment charging him with an offence of rape, the particulars being that on 14 June 2000 he raped the ... ...
  • R v Jones (Michael)
    • House of Lords
    • 14 Octubre 2004
    ... ... such as that which is alleged is capable of constituting the offence of indecent assault …. In law, a girl under the… age of 16, cannot ... since intercourse alleged to be non-consensual would be prosecuted as rape. As Mr Perry, for the Crown, has helpfully and painstakingly demonstrated, ... ...
  • R v Selvey
    • House of Lords
    • 09 Mayo 1968
    ... ... to the Appellant's room and it was there that McLaughlin said the offence was committed ... 3 In the course of his cross-examination by counsel ... 28 In R. v. Sheean [1908] 21 Cox C.C. 561 , a rape case, Jelf J. said when a man in the accused's station of life used such ... ...
  • R (Appellant) Hall (1) and Another Ferris (2) and Another A Walker (3) and Another P Walker (4) and Another Dan (5) and Another Stones (6) and Another Robertson (7) and Another P (8) (Respondents)
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 24 Noviembre 2011
    ... ... or unable to make a complaint at or close to the time of the offence ... 7 On occasions those who do complain ... legislation applicable to the present cases includes the Attempted Rape Act 1948, the Sexual Offences Act 1956, the Sexual Offences Act 1967, the ... ...
  • Attorney General's Reference (No. 3 of 1999); R v B
    • House of Lords
    • 14 Diciembre 2000
    ... ... The ordeal of the woman was horrendous and the offence of rape was of the utmost gravity ... 4 The victim was medically ... ...
  • R v K
    • House of Lords
    • 25 Julio 2001
    ... ... He is a man of good character, aged 26 at the date of the offence charged against him. Before the trial a preliminary issue was raised on ... may be relatively minor, others may be scarcely less serious than rape itself. This is reflected in the maximum penalty, now increased to 10 ... ...
  • Attorney-General's Reference (No 3 of 1999), Re British Broadcasting Corporation
    • House of Lords
    • 17 Junio 2009
    ... ... 6 At the time of D's trial in June 1999 on the charge of rape of which he was acquitted by direction of the trial judge there was no ... of course, protected against being put on trial again for the same offence by the double jeopardy rule. That protection has now been removed by Part ... ...
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