Malik and Abbott v The Queen
Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
Judgment Date | 1973 |
Date | 1973 |
Court | Privy Council |
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25 cases
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R v Howe; R v Bannister; R v Burke; R v Clarkson
...a reconsideration of the much discussed decisions in Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland v. Lynch [1975] A.C. 653 and Abbott v. The Queen [1977] A.C. 755. 7 In answering the second question, the Court of Appeal invited us to reconsider the decision of the Court of Appeal in......
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Dunne v DPP
...similar views. Lord Simon and Lord Kilbrandon dissented. 132 The next development was the decision of the Privy Council in Abbott v. R. [1977] A.C. 755. In that case the appellant was charged as a principal in the first degree, and the issue was whether the defence of duress was available. ......
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R v Jogee
... ... (Appellant) Ruddock (Appellant) and The Queen (Respondent) (Jamaica) [2016] UKSC 8 ... Lord Neuberger, ... ...
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R v Gotts
...of these observations to treat them as recognising the availability of the defence of duress to a charge of attempted murder. 17 In Abbott v. The Queen [1977] A.C. 755, the Privy Council by a majority held that on a charge of murder the defence of duress was not available to a principal in ......
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6 books & journal articles
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Table of Cases
...OF CASES References are to page numbers Abbott v The Queen [1977] AC 755, [1976] 3 WLR 462, [1976] 3 All ER 140, PC 58 Agip (Africa) Ltd v Jackson [1990] 1 Ch 265, [1989] 3 WLR 1367, [1992] 4 All ER 385, ChD 210 Air Canada v Secretary of State for Trade [1983] 2 AC 394, [1983] 2 WLR 494, [1......
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The Appellate Judgment
...murder, I drew attention, at p. 440, to two statements contrasting the functions of Parliament and the judges. In Abbott v The Queen [1977] A.C. 755 Lord Salmon said, at p. 767: ‘Judges have no power to create new criminal offences; nor in their Lordships’ opinion, for the reasons already s......
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From Criminal Law to Legal Theory: The Mysterious Case of the Reasonable Glue Sniffer
...4 All ER 961: see n 3 above, ch 8 and below, p 552.22 DPP for Northern Ireland vLynch [1975] AC 653.23 ibid 707.24 Abbott vR[1977] AC 755.25 ibid 772.26 [1971] 2 All ER 175.July 2002] From Criminal Law to Legal TheoryßThe Modern Law Review Limited 2002 month old baby had illegally entered a......
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No excuse: the failure of the ICC's article 31 "duress" definition.
...Every member of his gang might well be able to say with truth, 'It was as much as my life was worth to disobey.'"); Abbott v. The Queen, [1977] A.C. 755, 766-67 (P.C.) (appeal taken from Trim & Tobago) ("Common sense surely reveals the added dangers to which in this modern world the pub......
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