Holmes v DPP
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Year | 1946 |
| Date | 1946 |
| Court | House of Lords |
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...In my opinion, the summing up of the learned Judge was impeccable. Adapting the language used in this House in the cases of Mancini and Holmes to which I shall later refer, he thus directed the jury, "Provocation would arise if the conduct of the deceased woman, Mrs. Redding, to the prisone......
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16 books & journal articles
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Cases referred to in 1965
...248 Holland v. Holland (1918) p. 273, 280; (1918- 1919) All E.R. Rep. 882. 40 Holmes v. D.P.P. (1946) A.C. 588; 31 Cr. App. R. 123. 211 Hoystead v. Commissioner of Taxation (1926) A.C. 155, 170. ...................... 132 Hurst v. Evans (1917) 1 K.B. 352 at 356-7; 86 L.J.K.B. 305. 204 Idaho......
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When "heterosexual" men kill "homosexual" men: reflections on provocation law, sexual advances, and the "reasonable man" standard.
...(116) 2 American Law Inst., supra note 107, [sections] 210.3 commentary, at 55; see also Holmes v. Director of Pub. Prosec., [1946] 2 All E.R. 124, 128. (117) Cf. State v. Reynolds, CA-8524,1991 Ohio App. LEXIS 5888 (Ohio Ct. App. Dec. 9, 1991) affirming voluntary manslaughter conviction of......
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Notes
...Heinemann, 1947), Bk. V, 8. 3 See A.J. Ashworth, "The Doctrine of Provocation" (1976) 35 Cambridge Law Journal 292. 4 D.P.P. v. Holmes, [1946] A.C. 588 at 598 (HL). 5 R. v. Thibert (1996), 45 CR (4th) 1 at 11 (SCC). 6 Pearson's Case, 2 Lewin CC 216, 168 ER 1133. 7 Holmes v. D.P.P., [1946] A......
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Political Rhetoric or Principled Reform of Loss of Control? Anglo-Australian Perspectives on the Exclusionary Conduct Model
...against the other whichresults in death and then urge that the provocation received reduces the crime tomere manslaughter’: Holmes v DPP [1946] AC 588 at 600. ‘Over a third of menhanged in England and Wales between 1900 and 1950 were convicted ofmurdering wives or current and former women p......
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