Attorney General's Reference (No. 4 of 1980)
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judge | LORD JUSTICE ACKNER |
| Judgment Date | 02 April 1981 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1981] EWCA Crim J0402-4 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) |
| Docket Number | No. 3161/R/80 |
| Date | 02 April 1981 |
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Clare County Council v Floyd
...the intention to kill or seriously injure the victim criminal liability is established; Attorney General's Reference (No. 4 of 1980) [1981] 1 W.L.R. 705. 3 3. In practical terms, if an offence occurs in an instant, the charge must specify that it occurred at that instant. Usually that is do......
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R v Boreman
... ... Mr Justice Collins ... Case No: 98/6519/Z3, 98/6520, 98/6522 IN THE ... On the evening of 4 April 1996 there was a fight between Boreman and ... case must be contrasted with A - G's Reference (No. 4 0f 1980) [1981] 73 CAR 80 ). The ... ...
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King v R
...App R 24 at [11]. 32 See R v Shaw [2009] NZCA 232, (2009) 24 CRNZ 501. 33 See for example Attorney-General's Reference (No 4 of 1980) [1981] 1 WLR 705 (CA) and Thabo Meli v R [1954] 1 WLR 228 34 See also R v Smith [1997] 1 Cr App R 14 (CA). 35 At [9]. 36 At [10], referring to R v Qiu [2......
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Loone, Peter John v State of Tasmania (The)
...is not an element of the offence charged. So, to take an illustration from a recent case (Attorney-General's Reference No 4 of 1980 [1981] 2 All ER 617 [1981] 2 All ER 617) if the element of the offence of manslaughter is that the accused caused the death of the deceased that element is “pr......
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Lesser Included Offences, Alternative Offences and Accessorial Liability
...her putatively perpetrating offences relating to the disposal corpses and so on. 95. Attorney-General’s Reference (No.4 of 1980) [1981] 1 WLR 705; cf. R v Adomako [1995] 1 AC 171.96. R v Marks [1998] Crim LR 676 at 678, where J.C. Smith comments: ‘A person who is provoked into doing acts en......