R v Adkins

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date2000
Year2000
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
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5 cases
  • R v Fuller (Andrew)
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 20 December 2001
    ...indulged in sexual intercourse with the mistaken belief that she was consenting when in fact she was not." 19 In a recent case in England, R v Adkins [2000] 2 All ER 185, the appellant who was convicted on a charge of rape, contended that it had been consensual sexual intercourse. It was a......
  • Queen v Wilkinson (William)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Northern Ireland)
    • 24 June 2011
    ...to give such a direction would be fair. There must be room for mistake in the case before such a direction is required.” In R v Adkins [2000] 2 All ER 185 at 191 Roch LJ said: “In our judgment the cases demonstrate that (counsel) is wrong in his primary submission that whenever the 9 issue ......
  • Criminal Appeal judgment no. CACC161/2007
    • Hong Kong
    • Court of Appeal (Hong Kong)
    • 14 May 2008
    ...v. Adkins [2000] 2 All ER 185, R v Kwok Tak Ming Danny [1996] 4 HKC 395 (郭德明 [譯音])及 HKSAR v. Yiu Chi Wang [饒志宏] CACC 案例 15. 雙方所援引的案例都顯示當法庭作出「真實相信」的指引時,案件是存有某些特別的因素而需要法庭作出該項指引, 1) 在Morgan 一案,被告人的答辯理由是他們是被女事主的丈夫邀請與女事主發生性行為的。他們辯稱女事主的丈夫告訴他們女事主是同意與他們性交的。 2) 香...
  • 香港特別行政區 訴 鄧卓泓
    • Hong Kong
    • Court of Appeal (Hong Kong)
    • 7 September 2011
    ... ... Adkins ... ...
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1 books & journal articles
  • Case Note: INADVERTENCE AS RASHNESS
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2007, December 2007
    • 1 December 2007
    ...what might be termed a ‘retreat’ from the unbridled objectivism of Caldwell recklessness,29 the English Court of Appeal in R v Adkins[2000] 2 All ER 185 appeared to affirm that reckless rape could still be committed without an actual consciousness of a risk that the victim was not consentin......

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