R v Cheshire
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 22 April 1991 |
| Date | 22 April 1991 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) |
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36 cases
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R v Mellor
...direction to the jury in these circumstances. The question was debated with counsel before leading counsels' final speeches and the case of Cheshire (1991) 93 Cr.App.R 151 was considered. 77 In homicide cases, where the victim of the alleged crime does not die immediately, supervening event......
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William Johnston (junior)+charles Woolard V. Her Majesty's Advocate
...in the most simple terms, in accordance with the legal principles which they have to apply." That passage was adopted in R v Cheshire [1991] 1 WLR 844, which, like the case of Pagett, was concerned with improper medical treatment following an assault. Beldam LJ, delivering the judgment of t......
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R. v. Nette, [2001] 3 SCR 488
...279; R. v. Hallett, [1969] S.A.S.R. 141; Royall v. R. (1991), 100 A.L.R. 669; R. v. Smith (1959), 43 Cr. App. R. 121; R. v. Cheshire, [1991] 3 All E.R. 670; R. v. Hennigan, [1971] 3 All E.R. 133; Dulieu v. White, [1901] 2 K.B. 669; Athey v. Leonati, [1996] 3 S.C.R. By L’Heureux-Dubé J. Refe......
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7 books & journal articles
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Kennedy and Unlawful Act Manslaughter: An Unorthodox Application of the Doctrine of Causation
...actions thevictim would still have died.10 See Rv Mellor (Gavin Thomas) [1996] 2 Cr App R 245.11 See Beldam LJ in Rv Cheshire [1991] 3 All ER 670. This does not include a ‘slightor trifling link’ as in Rv Kimsey [1996] Crim LR 35.12 Rv Cato [1976] 1 All ER 260, per Lord Widgery CJ.13 (1983......
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Rape: Consent
...no needHomicide: Causation21 for treatment, however negative, to be performed (see, for example, R vSmith [1959] 2 QB 35; R v Cheshire [1991] 1 WLR 844). The only way,therefore, that intervening third party acts would be seen to break thechain of causation would appear to have been where th......
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Omissions Liability for Homicide Offences: Reconciling R v Kennedy with R v Evans
...as a serious offence per se. 17 [1995] 1 AC 171.18 R vPace (2008) 187 A Crim R 205; cf. R v Dalloway (1847) 2 Cox CC 273.19 R vCheshire [1991] 1 WLR 844 at 851–2.Omissions Liability for Homicide gun and also goaded Y to use it knowing that Y was suicidal, then Xwould be directly connected t......
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Gross Negligence Manslaughter: Is Prosecution of Doctors Always in the Public Interest and Is Specific Prosecutorial Guidance Needed?
...that case had been taken to hospital fortreatment for gunshot wounds and suffered fatal treatment complications.131. R v Cheshire (1991) 93 Cr. App. R. 251, 257–8, per Beldam LJ. Beldam LJ also confirmed ‘It is not the function of the jury toevaluate competing causes or to choose which is d......
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