Cox v Army Council

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date15 March 1962
Date15 March 1962
CourtHouse of Lords
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  • Air-India v Wiggins
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 3 July 1980
    ...specific words to the contrary, an "offence-creating section" of an Act of Parliament (to borrow an expression used by this House in Cox v. Army Council [1963] A.C. 48) was not intended to make conduct taking place outside the territorial jurisdiction of the Crown an offence triable in an E......
  • R. v. Finta (I.), (1992) 53 O.A.C. 1 (CA)
    • Canada
    • Ontario Court of Appeal (Ontario)
    • 29 April 1992
    ...154 (Ont. C.A.), refd to. [para. 128]. R. v. Hetsberger (1980), 51 C.C.C.(2d) 257 (Ont. C.A.), refd to. [para. 129]. Cox v. Army Council, [1963] A.C. 48; [1962] 1 All E.R. 880 (J.C.P.C.), refd to. [para. 132]. Air India v. Wiggens, [1981] 1 All E.R. 192 (H.L.), refd to. [para. 132]. Bolduc ......
  • Fernandes v Governor of HMP Brixton
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 7 October 2004
    ...a domestic offence", basing that general proposition on a number of authorities drawn from different statutory contexts, including: Cox v Army Council [1963] AC 48; Air-India v Wiggins [1980] 1 WLR 815; and Macleod v Attorney General for New South Wales [1891] AC 455, at 458. 70 Accordingly......
  • Holmes v Bangladesh Biman Corporation
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 16 February 1989
    ...specific words to the contrary, an 'offence-creating section' of an Act of Parliament (to borrow an expression used by this House in Cox v. Army Council [1963] A.C. 48, 67) was not intended to make conduct taking place outside the territorial jurisdiction of the Crown an offence triable in ......
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  • Table of Cases
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Transnational and Cross-Border Criminal Law. Canadian Perspectives Part VI. Inter-State Cooperation and Enforcement
    • 12 September 2023
    ...Association v Her Majesty the Queen, 2017 ONSC 7491............................................................ 37 Cox v Army Council, [1963] AC 48 .............................................................................172 CPRR No 02-2607/F2192, 19 October 2005 .............................
  • An Agenda for Jurisdictional Law Reform
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Transnational and Cross-Border Criminal Law. Canadian Perspectives Part III
    • 12 September 2023
    ...sources include R v Keyn (1876), 2 Ex Div 63; R v Jameson , [1896] 2 QB 425; Arcadi v he King , [1932] SCR 158; Cox v Army Council , [1963] AC 48; Daniels v White and he Queen , [1968] SCR 517; Treacy v DPP , [1971] AC 537, 55 Cr App R 113, at 551 [ Treacy ]; Air India v Wiggins , [1980] 2 ......
  • The Conflict of Laws and Statutes: The International Operational of Legislation Dealing With Matters of Civil Law in the United Kingdom and Australia
    • United Kingdom
    • The Modern Law Review No. 60-5, September 1997
    • 1 September 1997
    ...in detail below.2Goodwin vJorgensen (1973) 128 CLR 374, 383; Macleod vAttorney General of NSW [1891] AC455, 458; Cox vArmy Council [1963] AC 48, 67.3 As opposed to criminal enactments.4 s 2(1); cf J.J. Fawcett ‘Products Liability In Private International Law: A European Perspective’(1993) I......
  • CROSS-BORDER MOTOR ACCIDENTS AND THE MOTOR VEHICLES
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1998, December 1998
    • 1 December 1998
    ...abroad offences triable by English courts is even stronger.” 51 [1891] AC 455 at 478. See also Viscount Simonds in Cox v Army Council[1963] AC 48 at 67. 52 [1896] 2 QB 425 at 430. 53 This rule of interpretation has also been referred to as the presumption against extraterritorial criminalit......

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