R v Bateman

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1925
Year1925
CourtCourt of Appeal
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  • R v Northavon District Council, ex parte Smith (pet. all.)
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 14 July 1994
  • R v Adomako
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 8 November 1994
    ...It is not given to everyone to be a skilful surgeon, but it is given to every one to keep sober when such a duty has to be performed." 4In Bateman 1925 19 CAR 8 a case charging manslaughter against a doctor, Lord Hewart CJ said at page 11: "In explaining to juries the test which they should......
  • Brown (Uriah) v The Queen
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 13 April 2005
    ...it is a sufficient direction to the jury to adopt the gross negligence test set out by the Court of Appeal in the present case following Rex v Bateman, 19 Cr.App.R. 8 and Andrews v Director of Public Prosecutions [1937] AC 576 and that it is not necessary to refer to the definition of rec......
  • Rondel v Worsley
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 22 November 1967
    ...that the liability he incurred in point of law is somewhat hard upon him: but still I cannot doubt that he is liable." 45In the case of Rex v. Bateman in 1925, 94 L.J.K.B. 791, it was said in the judgment of the court at page 794 in reference to the civil liability of a medical man— "If a p......
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