Self Defence in UK Law
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Ashley v Chief Constable of Sussex Police
... ... 3 As to the first issue, the test of self-defence as a defence in a civil action is well-established and ... ...
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Mancini v DPP
... ... 's pocket-knife, and, while he described his own action as taken in self-defence, he made no mention whatever of a knife in Distleman's hand ... ...
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R v Brown Lucas Jaggard Laskey Carter (Conjoined Appeals)
... ... when the trial judge ruled that consent of the victim was no defence ... 8 By section 20 of the Act of 1861, as amended: ... "unlawfully" means that the accused had no lawful excuse such as self defence. The word "maliciously" means no more than intentionally for ... ...
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Rondel v Worsley
... ... The Appellant was convicted and it is plain that he had no real defence. But he was much aggrieved by evidence that he had used a knife; he wanted ... The Appellant's case was that he had only acted in self-defence. He now complains that after he had instructed the Respondent as ... ...
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R v Smith (Morgan James)
... ... is whether the trial judge properly directed the jury on the defence of provocation in accordance with section 3 of the Homicide Act 1957 which ... by things done or by things said or by both together) to lose his self-control, the question whether the provocation was enough to make a ... ...
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R v Moloney
... ... On a true analysis of the evidence, the real defence was never properly left to the jury with an appropriate Woolmington ... acquit the appellant of any offence, on the ground that he acted in self defence. In the circumstances the judge, very prudently no doubt, felt it ... ...
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R v Hasan (Aytach)
... ... The second concerns the defence of duress. Anonymity ... 2 At trial ... criticism: see, for example, Elliott, "Necessity, Duress and Self-Defence" [1989] Crim LR 611 , 614-615, and the commentary by Professor ... ...
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Re F (Mental Patient: Sterilisation); F v West Berkshire HA
... ... the Board on its legal liability and if necessary conduct its defence to these proceedings. 11. The Internal Enquiry Report in fact ... may not be unlawful - chastisement of children, lawful arrest, self-defence, the prevention of crime, and so on. As I pointed out in Collins ... ...
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R v Majewski
... ... After medical evidence had been called by the defence as to the effect of the drugs and drink the appellant had taken, the ... he was in as a result of drink and drugs or a combination of both was self-induced. He concluded "… upon my direction in law you can ignore the ... ...
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DPP for Northern Ireland v Lynch
... ... main contention of the Appellant and one of the main lines of his defence at the trial was that all that he had done had been done under duress and ... —must the law not remember that the instinct and perhaps the duty of self-preservation is powerful and natural? I think it must. A man who is ... ...
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