R v Clarence

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1888
Year1888
CourtCourt for Crown Cases Reserved

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79 cases
  • R v Ireland; R v Burstow
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 24 July 1997
    ..."inflict" that there must be a direct or indirect application of force to the body. Counsel cited the speech of Lord Roskill in Reg. v. Wilson (Clarence) [1984] A.C. 942, 259E-260H, in which Lord Roskill quoted with approval from the judgment of the full court of the Supreme Court of Victor......
  • R v Linekar
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 21 October 1994
    ...as a matter of law for corroboration, an alternative verdict that a jury can return. 42 In 1888 was decided the case of Clarence [1888] 22 Q.B.D. 23. This was the well-known case of the husband who knew that he was suffering from gonorrhoea and his wife did not, and he quite deliberately ha......
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    • United Kingdom
    • Assizes
    • Invalid date
  • R v Tabassum
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • Invalid date
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  • A Different Ball Game—Why the Nature of Consent in Contact Sports Undermines a Unitary Approach
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 71-6, December 2007
    • 1 December 2007
    ...of recognising that public policylimits the defence to situations where there has been implicit consent to whatoccurred’.173 Rv Clarence (1888) 22 QBD 23.174 Also arguably evidence of a shift in society’s attitudes towards greater sexualautonomy.175 Rv Brown [1994] 1 AC 212. The House of Lo......
  • Being Informed: The Complexities of Knowledge, Deception and Consent When Transmitting HIV
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 74-3, June 2010
    • 1 June 2010
    ...R vMetheram[1961] 3 All ER 200) and the totality of injuries can be combined for the term‘grievous’: R vGrundy [1977] Crim LR 543.16 (1888) 22 QBD 23.17 Ibid. at 41, per Stephen J. However, compare R v Martin (1881) 8 QBD 54, inwhich an inf‌liction of grievous bodily harm was upheld despite......
  • The Need to Kill Off Zombie Law
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 81-1, February 2017
    • 1 February 2017
    ...6 Mod 149 and Blackstone, Commentaries, Book 3, Chapter 8.18. Concise Oxford Dictionary, 8th edn (OUP: Oxford, 1992) 1289.19. Clarence (1888) 22 QBD 23 CCR, 36 (Wills J), 45 (Stephen J). Case since overruled on a different point.20. C.S. Kenny and G.G. Phillips, Outlines of Criminal Law, 15......
  • Subject Index, Volume 77, 2004
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles No. 77-4, November 2004
    • 1 November 2004
    ...Chalkley [1998] 2 Cr App R 79 143R v Chief Constable of Sussex, ex p. Independent Traders Ferry Ltd[1998] 3 WLR 1260 HL 144R v Clarence (1888) 22 QBD 23 178, 179R v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis, ex p. Rottman (2002)UKHL 20 70, 71R v D (2003) QB 90 330R v DPP ex p. Treadaway (19......
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