R v Cocker
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1989 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) |
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Provocation: Speculative Defence Not to Be Left to the Jury
...inflicted without much force. The evidencepointed against a frenzied attack by someone who had lost control.Similarly, in R v Cocker [1989] Crim LR 740, the Court of Appeal held ina case where the accused had eventually acceded to his terminally illwife’s requests that he should kill her, ......
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Excessive self-defence and criminal liability
...see De Freitas v The Queen [1960] 2 WLR 533; Shannon [1980] Cr App Rep 192. 44 Duffy [1949] 1 All ER 932n; Davies [1975] QB 691; Cocker [1989] Crim LR 740; Ibrams (1981) 74 Cr App R 154. © Juta and Company (Pty) 154 SACJ • (1999)12 • SAS of culpability required for a conviction of murder. ......
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Mercy Killing
...not.2Corresponding author:Amanda Clough, 21 Mitford Street, Fulwell, sunderland, SR6 8HT, UK.E-mail: amandaclough@hotmail.com1. Cocker [1989] Crim LR 740.2. Such as Inglis [2010] EWCA Crim 2637.The Journal of Criminal Law2015, Vol. 79(5) 358–372ªThe Author(s) 2015Reprints and permissions:sa......
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Some perspectives on provocation and domestic killing
...1975; Davies [1975] 1 All E.R. 890; Ward, December 1983, The New Statesman, 21 September 1984; Shaw [1984] Crim. L.R. 439; Cocker [1989] Crim. L.R. 740; Sherman, Scotland on Sunday, 4 March 1990; Bisla Singh, The Times, 30 January 1992 (the men). Robertson, The Times, 22 May 1975; Greig, Ma......
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