Chan Wing-Siu v The Queen

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1984
Date1984
CourtPrivy Council
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188 cases
  • R v Lewis Johnson and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 31 October 2016
    ...681 (" Jogee") in relation to the issue of joint enterprise as a consequence of the reversal of the pre-existing law laid down in Chan Wing-Siu v The Queen [1985] AC 168 and R v Powell, R v English [1999] 1 AC 1. 2 Had the change of law identified in Jogee been set out in statute (as oppose......
  • R v Jogee
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • 18 February 2016
    ...law reform [1997] 113 LQR 453 ). He used the expression to describe a doctrine which had been laid down by the Privy Council in Chan Wing-Siu v The Queen [1985] AC 168 and developed in later cases, including most importantly the decision of the House of Lords in R v Powell and R v Engl......
  • R v Barr
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 6 November 1986
    ...judge had, with his usual care, examined the authorities as they then stood upon this subject. He had looked in particular at Chan Wing-Siu and Others, (1985) 80 Cr.App.R. 117. That was a case which came to the Privy Council from the courts of Hong Kong. The circumstances were very differen......
  • R v Slack
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 27 June 1989
    ...a jury in these circumstances. That seems to be partly due to some of the observations of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Chan Wing-siu (1985) A.C. 168. There three assailants armed with knives burst into the flat of a prostitute, intent it seems on robbery. One of them murd......
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  • Secondary Liability In The Criminal Law
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    • 24 June 2011
    ...and kill V. D is guilty of murder if he foresaw that P, as an incident of the joint venture might commit that offence: Chan Wing-Siu [1985] A.C. 168; Powell and Daniels [1999] 1 A.C. 1. The rationale for the joint enterprise liability rule is that D, by attaching himself to the venture to c......
21 books & journal articles
  • Overwhelming Supervening Acts, Fundamental Differences, and Back Again?
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 86-6, December 2022
    • 1 December 2022
    ...theprincipal was foresight that the principal might commit that crime, the law needed a robust corrective to61. Chan Wing-Siu v The Queen [1985] AC 168 (PC).62. Jogee [2016] UKSC 8, [2017] AC 387 at [98].63. Jogee [2016] UKSC 8, [2017] AC 387 at [98].64. The question is also raised butnot r......
  • Overwhelming Supervening Acts, Fundamental Differences, and Back Again?
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 86-6, December 2022
    • 1 December 2022
    ...theprincipal was foresight that the principal might commit that crime, the law needed a robust corrective to61. Chan Wing-Siu v The Queen [1985] AC 168 (PC).62. Jogee [2016] UKSC 8, [2017] AC 387 at [98].63. Jogee [2016] UKSC 8, [2017] AC 387 at [98].64. The question is also raised butnot r......
  • Unlawfulness’s Doctrinal and Normative Irrelevance to Complicity Liability
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 81-5, October 2017
    • 1 October 2017
    ...be perpetrated arising.)103. A. P. Simester, ‘Accessory Liability and Common Unlawful Purposes’ (2017) 133(1) LQR 73.4. [1999] 1 AC 1.5. [1985] AC 168.6. D. J. Baker, Reinterpreting Criminal Complicity and Inchoate Participation Offences (Routledge: Oxford, 2016) 77–125. Seealso D. J. Baker......
  • A Normative Case for Abolishing the Doctrine of Extended Joint Criminal Enterprise
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 83-2, April 2019
    • 1 April 2019
    ...453, 465.3. McAuliffe v The Queen [1995] 183 CLR 108; Clayton v The Queen [2006] 168 A Crim R 174.4. Chan Wing-Siu v The Queen [1985] AC 168; Sze Kwan-Lung v HKSAR [2004] 7 HKAFCR 475.5. R v Powell and English [1999]1 AC 1, at 2; R v ABCD [2011] QB 845, 849.6. [1985] AC 168.7. [1999]1 AC 1.......
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