R v Bateman

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1925
CourtCourt of Criminal Appeal
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89 cases
  • R v Northavon District Council, ex parte Smith (pet. all.)
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • July 14, 1994
    ...caused by the manner of the defendant's driving must be very high. In his Lordship's opinion, the law as stated in R v BatemanUNK ((1925) 19 CrAppR 8) and Andrews v DPPELR ((1937) AC 576) was satisfactory as providing a proper basis for describing the crime of involuntary manslaughter. Sinc......
  • David Sellu v The Crown
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • November 15, 2016
    ...set out in R v Lawrence [1982] AC 510). On the contrary, it was held that it was sufficient to adopt the gross negligence tests following R v Bateman 19 Cr App R 8 and Andrews v DPP [1937] AC 576. 147 Going back to those decisions, in Bateman, Lord Hewart CJ put the test in this way (at pag......
  • R v Misra (Amit)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • October 8, 2004
    ...is a sufficient direction to the jury to adopt the gross negligence tests 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 reckle......
  • R v Adomako
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • November 8, 1994
    ...two authorities before the leading case, Andrews v DPPELR ((1937) AC 576): R v Doherty ((1887) 16 Cox CC 306, 309) and R v BatemanUNK ((1925) 19 Cr App R 8, 11). In Andrews, a case of motor manslaughter, Lord Atkin had quoted the passage from Bateman and (at p583) introduced the word "reckl......
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8 books & journal articles
  • A Different Ball Game—Why the Nature of Consent in Contact Sports Undermines a Unitary Approach
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 71-6, December 2007
    • December 1, 2007
    ...lapse of skill, unless the participant’s conduct is such as to evince a recklessdisregard of the spectator’s safety”’.126 Rv Bateman (1925) 19 Cr App R 8.127 Caldwell v Maguire and Fitzgerald [2001] EWCA Civ 1054, [2002] PIQR P6.128 Ibid. per Lord Tuckey.129 Rv Barnes [2004] EWCA Crim 3246,......
  • Master or Servant: A Corporation's Liability for the Activities of a Ship's Master
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 72-6, December 2008
    • December 1, 2008
    ...would have been successfulas no guiding ‘mind’ would have been necessary and the company’s83 Mandaraka-Sheppard, above n. 39 at 351.84 (1925) 19 Cr App R 8.85 Ibid. at 11.86 Simester and Sullivan, above n. 70 at 267.87 R v Cunningham [1957] 2 QB 396.A Corporation’s Liability for the Activit......
  • Rethinking the Mental Element in Involuntary Manslaughter
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 85-4, August 2021
    • August 1, 2021
    ...Jurisprudence or the Philosophy of Positive Law (5th edn, rev J. Murray, London 1885) at 443–45.113. The authorities from R v Bateman (1927) 19 Cr App R 8 at 10–11 through to R v Rose [2018] QB 328 are consistent as far asthe conduct element is concerned.114. DPP v Morgan (n 104); RvG(n 3).......
  • A Betrayal of Trust? Back to the Drawing Board for Medical Manslaughter
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 85-5, October 2021
    • October 1, 2021
    ...LR24; C Crosby, ‘Gross Negligence Manslaughter by Omission: The Emergence of a Good Samaritan Law?’ (2018) 82 JCL 127.12. R v Bateman (1927) 19 Cr App R 8; Adomako (n 10); R v Misra; R v Srivastava [2004] EWCA Crim 2375; R v Garg(Sundhanshu) [2012] EWCA Crim 2520; R v Kovvali [2013] EWCA Cr......
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