R v Beer

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeLORD JUSTICE LAWTON
Judgment Date28 June 1976
Judgment citation (vLex)[1976] EWCA Crim J0628-16
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Docket NumberNo. 4012/C1/75
Date28 June 1976

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4 cases
  • R v Moloney
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 21 March 1985
    ...of elaborating unnecessarily on the meaning of intention in all but exceptional cases had already been emphasised by Lawton LJ. in Reg. v. Beer (1976) 63 Cr.App.R. 222, 225. In the same place Lawton LJ. had also emphasised the very unusual nature of the facts in Reg. v. Hyam [1975] A.C. 55......
  • R v Alistair Baden Roy Moloney
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 16 December 1983
    ...question of intent or intention. We respectfully accept Mr. Blom-Coope's submission, based upon the dictum of Lawton L.J. in the case of R. v. Beer (1976), 63 Cr.App.R. 222, that in most cases there is no need, indeed it is undesirable, to give a jury any definition of intent or intention i......
  • R v Purcell
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 11 March 1986
    ...of cases, an explanation of intent was unnecessary and notes the endorsement of this view to Which I have already referred in Beer (1976) 63 Cr. App. R. 222. Apart from copious references to Hyam, the ensuing citation in support of the claim that the definition 'is in accordance with the gr......
  • Chan Wing-siu And Others v The Queen
    • Hong Kong
    • Court of Appeal (Hong Kong)
    • 8 April 1982
    ...(10) (1969) S.A.S.R. 141 (11) (1957) O.R. 120 (12) (1936) 55 Crim. L.R. 253 (13) (1967) 1 A.C. 617 (14) (1980) 55 A.L.J.R. 23 (15) (1976) 63 Cr. App. R. 222 Silk, J.A. : 126. I also have had the opportunity of reading in draft the judgment of McMullin V.-P. which sets out in detail the fact......

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