DPP v Rogers
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1953 |
| Year | 1953 |
| Court | Queen's Bench Division |
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21 cases
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R v McCormack
... ... Whipp and The Director of Public Prosecutions v. Rogers, cases which have shown that where the accused adult invites a child, for example, to touch his private parts, but exercises no sort of compulsion and there is no hostile act, the charge of indecent assault is not appropriate. But, in our view, that line of authorities has no application here, and, ... ...
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R v Sutton (Terence)
... ... The cases to be referred to are Beal and Kelley, 35 Criminal Appeal Reports, page 120; Fairclough and Whipp, 35 Criminal Appeal Reports, page 138; Burrows, 35 Criminal Appeal Reports, page 180 and finally The Director of Public Prosecutions against Rogers, 1953 1 Weekly Law Reports, page 1017 ... 7 All these four cases involved children. In the first there was a hostile act. In the second and third there was merely an invitation to the child to touch the accused but no touching of the child by the accused or other hostile act by ... ...
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B. (A Minor) v DPP
...later the same point arose and was similarly decided regarding a girl aged eleven: see Director of Public Prosecutions v. Rogers [1953] 1 W.L.R. 1017. Following a report of the Criminal Law Revision Committee in August 1959 (First Report: Indecency with Children (Cmnd. 835)), Parliament en......
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R v Jones (Michael)
...sexual intercourse is rarely if ever the sort of passive invitation involved in the cases of Fairclough v Whipp [1951] 2 All ER 834 and DPP v Rogers [1953] 1 WLR 1017 which necessitated the Indecency with Children Act 1960. It was decided in R v McCormack [1969] 2 QB 442 that a charge of......
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1 books & journal articles
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The Need to Kill Off Zombie Law
...Act 1922, s.1 and before that the Criminal LawAmendment Act 1880, s.2 (under-13s).16. At 139–140. It should be noted that the report at [1953] 1 WLR 1017 is rather shorter and omits the words ‘Here no force wasused and nothing was done except what any father may do.’ It is not known whether......