Fairclough v Whipp
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1951 |
| Year | 1951 |
| Court | Court of Criminal Appeal |
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14 cases
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R v McCormack
...there being here a willing girl and no evidence of any compulsion or hostility: and he referred to a line of authorities such as Fairclough v. 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 ......
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B. (A Minor) v DPP
...failed to achieve that objective, and one particular class of offence, or at any rate of undesirable conduct, had been overlooked. In Fairclough v. Whipp [1951] 2 All ER 834 and DPP v. Rogers [1953] 2 All ER 644, the Court had held that there cannot be an indecent assault unless there is ......
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R v Jones (Michael)
...This too is quite untenable. Vaginal 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 McCorm......
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R v K
...R v Forde had been in 1923. 16 Even before enactment of the 1956 Act, a lacuna in the existing legislation had come to light. In both Fairclough v Whipp [1951] 2 All ER 834 and Director of Public Prosecutions v Rogers [1953] 1 WLR 1017 there had been objectionable acts of indecency, in th......
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