Attorney General v Able

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtQueen's Bench Division
Year1983
Date1983

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44 cases
  • R v L and Another
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 28 August 2008
    ...of the personal and individual nature of a guilty mind. In such a case, it may well be that a contrary intention appears. Attorney-General v Able [1984] 1 All ER 277, to which we were referred, was a case in which the point which we have had to consider was not in any manner argued, and the......
  • Attorney General (S.P.U.C.) v Open Door Counselling Ltd
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 16 March 1988
    ...not persons were likely to be corrupted. Knuller v. Director of Public ProsecutionsELR [1973] A.C. 435 and Attorney General v. AbleELR [1984] Q.B. 795 considered. 6. That the activities of the defendants amounted to counselling and assisting pregnant women to travel abroad to obtain further......
  • The Secretary of State for Justice v A Local Authority
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 October 2021
    ...has actually arisen.” Woolf J had referred to the danger of usurping the jurisdiction of the criminal courts in Attorney General v. Able [1984] QB 795 at 807 to 808 dealing with an application for a declaration that certain conduct was criminal. More recently in R (Hampstead Heath Winter S......
  • Bowman v Fels (Bar Council and Others intervening)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 8 March 2005
    ...of the criminal courts by interpreting a criminal statute unless it is very desirable for it to do so (see Attorney-General v Able [1984] QB 795 at pp 806–808 for a helpful statement of the relevant principles). Mr Pannick told us that NCIS was particularly keen that we should resolve the ......
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2 books & journal articles
  • The Contribution of Complicity
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 86-6, December 2022
    • 1 December 2022
    ...to satisfy a ‘but for’test, i.e. that P’s act would not have happened but for D’sassistance or encouragement: Attorney General v Able [1984] QB 795, 812 and R v Calhaem [1985] QB 808.To require the prosecution to satisfy a ‘but for’test would be to place an impossible burden on them in many......
  • Complicity in Suicide
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 69-6, December 2005
    • 1 December 2005
    ...R v Wright [2000] Crim LR 928, (2000) 64 JCL 576.6 R v Bryce [2004] EWCA Crim 1231, [2004] 2 Cr App R 35 at 592.7 Attorney-General v Able [1984] QB 795, [1984] 1 All ER 277, per Woolf J; R v (1862) 9 Cox CC 152; R v Baker (1909) 28 NZLR 536. 8 R v Reed (1982) Crim LR 819. 536 Complicity in ......