Hill v Baxter
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 1958 |
| Date | 1958 |
| Court | Queen's Bench Division |
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Attorney General's Reference (No. 2 of 1992)
...arises only where there is such total destruction of voluntary control that the defendant cannot be said to be driving at all. He cited Hill v Baxter 1958 42 CAR 51 in which Lord Goddard CJ said: 20 "I agree that there may be cases where the circumstances are such that the accused could not......
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R v Smith (Stanley)
...of that type of help. We are assisted to that view by a passage in the judgment of Mr. Justice Devlin (as he then was) in the case of Hill v. Baxter which is to be found in volume 42 Cr. App. Rep. page 59. The report starts at page 51 and the passage I wish to cite is at page 59. 17 Before ......
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Table of cases
...Hill v Baxter, [1958] 1 QB 277 ..................................................................................................... 312 Hill v Church of Scientology of Toronto, [1995] 2 SCR 1130 ............................... 128, 297 Hills v Canada (Attorney General), [1988] 1 SCR 513 ........
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A More Modest Principle of Voluntariness
...this approach. 13 Hundal , above note 11 at 875, Cory J. 14 Ibid at 875–76. See also the discussion of Lord Goddard in Hill v Baxter [1958] 1 QB 277 at 283, as well as the subsequent analysis in S Prevezer, “Automatism and Involuntary Conduct” [1958] Criminal Law Review 440; J Ll J Edwards,......
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Causing Death by Dangerous Driving
...the driver. S wasconvicted. (R. v. Sibbles (1959) Crim. L.R. 660.) The standard caseon"automatism", is,ofcourse, Hill v, Baxter [1958] 1 All E.R.193; [1958] 1 Q.B. 277.The mental element was dealt with at some length in the appealcaseofR. v. Evans [1962] 3 W.L.R. 1457; (1963) Crim. L.R. 112......
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Case Comment
...note 5; Blair, D,"Medico-legal Aspects of Automatism" (1977) 17 Medicine, ScienceandLaw 167.4 See forexampleHill vBaxter [1958] 1 QB 277; [1958] 1 All ER 193; R v Sibbles [1959]CrimLR660; Watmore vJenkins [1962] 3 WLR 463; [1962] 2 All ER 868; R v Sell [1962]CrimLR 463.5HMAdvocatevRitchie o......
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