R v Bernhard

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1938
Year1938
CourtCourt of Criminal Appeal
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  • Jim Skivington
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 13 January 1967
    ......Indeed this principle is inherent in the case of Bernhard to which I have already referred, because in that case the claim of right arose in a case of demanding money with menaces, and a claim of right would only be a defence if the prisoner be-lieved that he was entitled to take the money by these means. . 7 The same, as Mr. Hazan has ......
  • Attorney General v Grey
    • Ireland
    • Court of Criminal Appeal
    • 2 May 1944
    ...was not well founded in law or in fact, and that in the absence of such a direction the conviction must be quashed. R. v. BernhardELR[1938] 2 K. B. 264, applied. Court of Criminal of Appeal. The People (Attorney-General) v. Grey. THE PEOPLE (at the suit of the Attorney-General) and WILLIAM ......
  • The State v Paul Paraka
    • Papua New Guinea
    • 26 May 2023
    ...MacLeod v R (2003) 214 CLR 230; and The State v Felix Luke Simon (2020) N8183 applying R v Pollard [1962] QWN 13, 29; R v Bernhard [1938] 2 KB 264, 270; and Harris v Harrison (1963) Crim LR 497. Furthermore, whilst a claim need not be reasonable, one that is unreasonable may be less likely ......
  • Walden v Hensler
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • Invalid date
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  • Preliminary Sections
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Nigerian Supreme Court Cases. 1962 Preliminary Sections
    • 11 November 2022
    ...12 Crim. App. R. 81; 86 L.J.K.B. 28; 115 L.T. 453; 80 J.P. 446; 60 Sol. Jo. 696; 25 Cox 524. 406 R. v. Bernhard 26 Crim App R. 137; (1938) 2 K.B. 264; 159 LT. 22; 1938 2 All E.R. 140 65 R. v. Bloomsbury Income Tax Commissioners, (1915) 3 K.B. 768; 85 L.J.K.B. 129; 113 L.T. 1015; 31 T.L.R. 5......

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