Attorney General's Reference (No. 2 of 1999)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date2000
Year2000
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
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25 cases
  • St Regis Paper Company Ltd v The Crown
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 4 Noviembre 2011
    ...was "in the position of managing the affairs of the company" (190). 7 Such an approach to attribution has persisted. In Attorney General's Reference (No. 2 of 1999) [2002] Cr App R 207 Rose LJ described Tesco v Nattrass as still authoritative and said:- "it is impossible to find a company g......
  • Transco Plc V. Her Majesty's Advocate
    • United Kingdom
    • High Court of Justiciary
    • 3 Junio 2003
    ...manslaughter in England led to the most recent case relating to that subject cited to us, Attorney-General's Reference (No.2 of 1999) [2000] Q.B. 796. Two questions were referred to the court for its opinion. These were (1) Can a defendant be properly convicted of manslaughter by gross negl......
  • R v Misra (Amit)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 8 Octubre 2004
    ...on Mr Gledhill's associated contention that if recklessness is not a necessary ingredient of this offence, the decision in Attorney General's Reference (No. 2 of 1999) [2000] QB 796 led to the unacceptable conclusion that manslaughter by gross negligence did not require proof of any specifi......
  • Transco Plc v HM Advocate
    • United Kingdom
    • High Court of Justiciary
    • 14 Enero 2005
    ...Allan v PattersonSC 1980 JC 57 Andrews v Director of Public ProsecutionsELR [1937] AC 576 Attorney General's Reference (No 2 of 1999)ELR [2000] QB 796 Bolton (H L) (Engineering) Co Ltd v T J Graham & Sons LtdELR [1957] 1 QB 159 Cameron v MaguireSC 1999 JC 63 Canadian Dredge and Dock Co Ltd ......
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18 books & journal articles
  • Table of Cases
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill Saggerson on Travel Law and Litigation - 7th Edition Contents
    • 30 Agosto 2022
    ...1 Lloyd’s Rep 150, QBD 8.28 Ash v Thomas Cook Airlines, 28 April 2015 (unreported), Manchester Cty Ct 10.194 A-G’s Ref (No 2 of 1999) [2000] QB 796, [2000] 3 WLR 195, [2000] 3 All ER 182, [2000] Crim LR 475, [2000] IRLR 417, CA 12.76 Ayles v South Eastern Railway Co (1867–9) LR 3 Ex 146, Ct......
  • Policing the Railways and Related Legal Issues
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 67-6, December 2003
    • 1 Diciembre 2003
    ...article. 13 Above n. 11 at paras 1.10–1.18.14 J. C. Smith and B. Hogan, Criminal Law, 8th edn (Butterworths: London, 1996) 189. 15 [2000] 3 All ER 182, CA. In the crash on 19 September 1997 seven died, 151 people were injured and millions of pounds worth of damage was done.S. Parsons, ‘The ......
  • Doctors Are Aggrieved—Should They Be? Gross Negligence Manslaughter and the Culpable Doctor
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 84-4, August 2020
    • 1 Agosto 2020
    ...imprisonment without proof of sufficient fault’, Ashworth (n 33) at 168.48. Adomako (n 10), 179. On this point in AG Ref (No 2 of 1999) [2000] QB 796, at 809 the court said, ‘Although there may becases where the defendant’s state of mind is relevant to the jury’s consideration when assessin......
  • A Betrayal of Trust? Back to the Drawing Board for Medical Manslaughter
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 85-5, October 2021
    • 1 Octubre 2021
    ...care/written/91808.pdf>accessed 3 August 2020.28. Attorney General’s Reference (No 2 of 1999) [2000] QB 796 at 809.29. C Elliott, ‘Recent Developments in the English Law of Involuntary Manslaughter’ (1995) 3 Eur J Crime Cr L Cr J 272, 277.30. Lord Mackay of Clashfern, ‘Involuntary Manslaugh......
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