Attorney General for Northern Ireland v Gallagher
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 01 January 1962 |
| Date | 01 January 1962 |
| Court | House of Lords |
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66 cases
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R v Majewski
...concept to not in fact having a guilty intent because of drunkenness. 22 Beard's case was considered by the House of Lords in A-G for Northern Ireland v. Gallagher, (1963) Appeal Cases, 349. Their Lordships were concerned with the consequences of the voluntary consumption of alcohol upon c......
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R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Launder
...view that we should not decline to hear argument on issues other than on the question which had been certified. 23In Attorney General for Northern Ireland v. Gallagher [1963] A.C. 350 it was held that the jurisdiction of this House under section 1 of the Administration of Justice Act 1960 i......
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R v Lipman
...manslaughter or unlawful wounding for which no specific intent is necessary, see Beard's case." 7 The other case is the Attorney-General for Northern Ireland v. Gallagher (reported in the same volume at page 349), and I cite a passage, again from Lord Denning, at page 381: "If a man is char......
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5 books & journal articles
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Political Rhetoric or Principled Reform of Loss of Control? Anglo-Australian Perspectives on the Exclusionary Conduct Model
...11 International Journal of Law and Psychiatry77; and A. Ward, ‘Making Some Sense of Self-induced Intoxication’ [1986] CambLJ 247.29 [1963] AC 349.The Journal of Criminal that he was incapable of an intent to kill. So also, when he is a psychopathhe cannot by drinking rely on his self-induc......
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Involuntary Intoxication
...RvM’Naughten [1843] 10 Cl & F 200 at 210. See DPP vBeard [1920] AC 479, 501; Attorney-General for Northern IrelandvGallagher [1963] AC 349 and RvC[2013] EWCA Crim 223 at [18] (the ‘precise line between the law of voluntaryintoxication and the law of insanity may be difficult to identify in ......
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Preliminary sections
...Atswaga v. Agena (1964) N.N.L.R. 122………………..…...........................................…………1082 Att.-Gen. for N. Ireland v. Gallagher (1963) A.C. 349; (1961) 3 All E.R. 299…………….........1008 Attah v. State (1993) 4 N.W.L.R. (Pt. 288) 403…….........................................................
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Recent Judicial Decisions
...of a felony of violence,now out-dated.TheattemptbyLordDenning to re-statethelaw inAttorneyGeneral (N.I.) v. Gallagher [1963] A.C. 349 was not intellectually successfuland wasapparentlynot evenreferredto here.TheCourtof Appeal in thiscase has put a simple formula. Anegative point,thatadrunke......
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