DPP v Beard

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1920
Date1920
CourtHouse of Lords
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198 cases
  • R v Lipman
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 29 July 1969
    ...is essential, but he is still liable to be convicted of manslaughter or unlawful wounding for which no specific intent is necessary, see Beard's case." 7 The other case is the Attorney-General for Northern Ireland v. Gallagher (reported in the same volume at page 349), and I cite a passage,......
  • R v Howell
    • United Kingdom
    • Crown Court
    • Invalid date
  • Leslie Moodie v R
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 31 July 2015
    ...the shooting started. 118 Mrs Palmer-Hamilton referred us to the well-known older case of Director of Public Prosecutions v Beard (1920) 14 Cr App R 159, at page 194, in which Lord Birkenhead LC had stated that ‘evidence of drunkenness which renders the accused incapable of forming the spec......
  • R v Singh et Al
    • Guyana
    • Court of Appeal (Guyana)
    • 28 September 1983
    ...be applied are therefore those which were enunciated by Lord Birkenhead in the leading case of Director of Public Prosecutions v. Beard, (1920) A.C. 479, at pp. 493, 504. The State's case traveled along those lines and the learned trial judge summed up accordingly. BALKARRAN SINGH AND HORTO......
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    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Mental Disorder and the Law. A Primer for Legal and Mental Health Professionals
    • 24 June 2017
    ...Pennsylvania, 325 F Supp 966 (MD Pa 1971) ............................................................................ 262 DPP v Beard, [1920] AC 479 (HL) .....................................................................202, 203 DRP (Re), [2014] ORBD No 2349 ..................................
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    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Criminal Law. Eighth edition
    • 1 September 2022
    ...Corp, [1994] 3 SCR 835, 94 CCC (3d) 289, 120 DLR (4th) 12 ............................................................. 53 DPP v Beard, [1920] AC 479, [1920] All ER Rep 21, 14 Cr App Rep 159 (HL) ......................................... 293–94, 297, 298, 309, 341 DPP v Camplin, [1978] AC 7......
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    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Archive Criminal Law. Seventh Edition
    • 4 August 2018
    ...Corp, [1994] 3 SCR 835, 94 CCC (3d) 289, 120 DLR (4th) 12 ............................................................. 53 DPP v Beard, [1920] AC 479, [1920] All ER Rep 21, 14 Cr App Rep 159 (HL) ................................................................ 278–79, 280, 282, 283, 294, 32......
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    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Law and Mental Disorder. A Comprehensive and Practical Approach Preliminary Sections
    • 19 June 2013
    ...c. Dr. Prosper (22 décembre 2004), Montreal 500-09-015164-049 (Que. C.A.) .................................1038, 1058 D.P.P. v. Beard, [1920] A.C. 479 (H.L.) ....................................................................................................................327, 335 Daniel M......
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