R v Caldwell

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1980
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
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  • R v Adomako
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 8 November 1994
    ...Essentially, the question is that posed in the current edition of Archbold at paragraph 19–97: "has gross negligence manslaughter survived Caldwell and 3We have been referred to a plethora of legal authority going back as far as Bracton and Coke and, at our invitation, as far abroad as the ......
  • R v Coles
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 13 July 1994
    ...setting fire to hay in a barn and that the Judge should depart from the classical direction on recklessness formulated by Lord Diplock in R v Caldwell [1982] AC 341 at 354. After hearing full argument Judge Brown gave his ruling: "He asks me to incorporate in my direction to the jury a su......
  • DPP v K
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • Invalid date
  • R v Fotheringham
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 19 July 1988
    ...no defence to a crime in which recklessness is enough to constitute the necessary mens rea" – see as to that the speech of Lord Diplock in Caldwell (1981) 73 Cr. App. R. 13 at page 21, where Lord Diplock refers to Majewski (1977) A.C. 443, where it was held that rape is a crime of basic int......
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