Board of Trade v Owen

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1956
Date1956
CourtHouse of Lords
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71 cases
  • R v Cox (Peter Stanley)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • November 30, 1967
    ...the United Kingdom. 10 When the Lord Chief Justice was giving judgment in the Court of Criminal Appeal in the case of the Board of Trade v. Owen and Seth Smith, he referred to count 5 and indeed count 6 of the indictment in that case. Those counts never fell to bo considered by Their Lordsh......
  • R v Welham
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Criminal Appeal
    • Invalid date
  • Attorney General's Reference (No. 1 of 1982)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • March 30, 1983
    ...object by unlawful means both of which were outside the jurisdiction. 14Miss Goddard's first argument is this. Accepting the test in Board of Trade v. Owen, although no indictment would lie in England for a substantive crime if this conspiracy was carried out, the conspiracy itself was indi......
  • R v Governor of Pentonville Prison, ex parte Khubchandani
    • United Kingdom
    • Divisional Court
    • February 7, 1980
    ...constitute offences under English law, there can be no offence of conspiracy to commit those offences. By the authority of Board of Trade v. OwenELR [1957] A.C. 602 it is clearly established that a conspiracy to commit a crime abroad is not indictable in England unless the contemplated crim......
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  • The Long Arm Of The Law: Extra-Territoriality And The Serious Crime Act 2007
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    • October 3, 2012
    ...justiciable, while a conspiracy formed within the jurisdiction to commit an offence abroad is not (see for instance Board of Trade v Owen [1957] AC 602). This latter position is, however, reversed by section 1A of the Criminal Law Act 1977. Though no authority exists on the point, it may be......
4 books & journal articles
  • The Bombs in Omagh and their Aftermath: The Criminal Justice (Terrorism and Conspiracy) Act 1998
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 62-6, November 1999
    • November 1, 1999
    ...is limited to persons whokill, maim, kidnap, cause serious bodily injury or assault with a deadly weapon.103 See Board of Trade vOwen [1957] AC 602 and CLA 1977 s 1(4).104 Samchai Liangsiriprasert vUnited States Government (1990) 92 Cr App R 77; RvSanson [1991] 2QB 130.105 In addition, the ......
  • Cyber-Ticket Touting as Fraudulent Trading
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 86-5, October 2022
    • October 1, 2022
    ...covered conspiracies to dishonestly obtain alicense. See the discussion in Baker, above n 11 at para 32.85. See too Board of Trade v Owen [1957] AC 602 at 622; and see Rv Terry [1984] AC 374, examining the meaning of “fraudulently”in s 26(1) of the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971.43. Re Daystree......
  • From famine to feast. The prosecution of multi‐jurisdictional financial crime in the electronic age
    • United Kingdom
    • Emerald Journal of Financial Crime No. 15-3, July 2008
    • July 18, 2008
    ...criminal jurisdiction because the only element of the offenceoccurred elsewhere (i.e. in Germany).28. Contra Board of Trade v. Owen, [1957] A.C. 602 (HL), wherein it was held that a conspiracyformed within England to commit an offence abroad was not triable by English courts.29. Treacy v. D......
  • Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 55-1, February 1991
    • February 1, 1991
    ...in England is triable inEngland in the absence of any overt act pursuant to the conspiracybeing done in England. In BoardofTrade v Owen[1957]AC 602,the House of Lords held that a conspiracy to defraud the Germansin Germany is not indictable in England. In the obverse case of aconspiracy in ......

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