Cox v Army Council

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CourtHouse of Lords
Judgment Date15 March 1962
Date15 March 1962

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42 cases
  • 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 Warn
    • United Kingdom
    • Courts-Martial Appeal Court
    • Invalid date
    ...to naval discipline and guilty of a civil offence was liable to conviction under the Act of 1957. Cox v. Army Council [1963] A.C. 48; [1962] 2 W.L.R. 950; [1962] 1 All E.R. 880, H.L.(E.) (2) That the provisions of section 8 of the Sexual Offences Act, 1957, applied to the court-martial “pro......
  • Michael Rottman and The Governor of HMP Brixton and The Government of Germany
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 14 March 2003
    ...law would be committed. 47 In support of that submission, she draws attention to the decision of the House of Lords in Cox v Army Council [1963] AC 48. The House of Lords was concerned with the question whether a soldier had committed a "civil offence", an act punishable by the law of Engla......
  • DPP v Stonehouse
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 30 June 1977
    ...payable by the said Insurers". 93The first submission of Mr. Blom-Cooper may be shortly stated: As Viscount Simonds, L.C. said in Cox v. Army Council [1963] A.C.48, at page 67, "… apart from those exceptional cases in which specific provision is made in regard to acts committed abroad, the......
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  • Extra Territorial Effect Of Malaysian Law On Corporate Liability
    • Malaysia
    • Mondaq Malaysia
    • 9 January 2024
    ...the contrary, an 'offence-creating section' of an Act of Parliament (to borrow an expression used by this House in Cox v Army Council [1962] 1 All ER 880; [1963] AC 48) was not intended to make conduct taking place outside the territorial jurisdiction of the Crown an offence triable in an E......
3 books & journal articles
  • 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 ......
  • 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......