R v Cooke
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 1986 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 1986 |
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11 cases
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R v Leon Florenzous Sofroniou
...Sir John Smith QC in his commentaries on Halai and also on R v Teong Tatt Chuah [1991] Crim LR 463; R v Shortland [1995] Crim LR 893; R v Cooke [1997] Crim LR 436; R v Cummings-John [1997] Crim LR 660; and R v Naviede [1997] Crim LR 662. 24 This appeal raises difficult issues relating to th......
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David Barton v The Queen
...rights. The agreement need not necessarily include the commission of a substantive offence if carried out: see Scott (above) and Cooke [1986] AC 909. 122 Conspiracy to defraud does not apply to agreements to achieve a lawful object by lawful means. But there is no requirement of “unlawfulne......
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Sociedade Nacional de Combusitveis de Angola UEE and Others v Lundqvist and Others
...be some offence under the Theft Act. But the combined effect of the decisions of the House of Lords in R. v. Ayres [1984] A.C. 447 and R. v. Cooke [1986] A.C. 909 might have the result that the prosecution would be obliged to charge only a statutory conspiracy to commit an offence under t......
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1 firm's commentaries
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The Fraud Act 2006: Has It Had Any Impact?
...two employees who sold their sandwiches in place of British Rail ones were guilty of conspiracy to defraud, as they acted together: Cooke [1986] AC 909. The law created an situation in which an act was capable of prosecution when carried out by more than one person, but not when carried out......
4 books & journal articles
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Recklessness—The Continuing Search for a Definition
...is Destroyed or Damaged’ [2004] Crim LR 369.93 See, e.g., Elliott v C (A Minor) [1983] 1 WLR 939 discussed below.94 See R v Cooke [1986] 2 All ER 985, per Lord Bridge: ‘judicial language has nolegislative force and, if a particular form of words has been used judicially inexpressing a decis......
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Legal aspects of share watering: A comparative study
...what constitutes fraud. See also R v Allsop (1976) 64 Cr App R 29; Attorney General’s Reference (No 1 of 1982) [1983] QB 751; R v Cooke 1 1986] AC 909. 40 See above. 41 See above and below. 42 (1897) 1 Ch 796. © Juta and Company (Pty) company went into liquidation and the liquidator fi led ......
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Fraud Trials: A Brave New World
...to keep things simple, there must be a riskthat the provisions will in fact give rise to a new rash of cases in which13 [1984] AC 447.14 [1986] AC 909.15 Criminal Law Revision Committee, 18th Report, Conspiracy to Defraud (1986).16 Reference 084/2005 (26 May 2005).Fraud Trials: A Brave New ......
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Reforming the Substantive Law of Fraud
...collapseof the bank was caused by the making of excessive advances to its32(1987)Crim.L.R. 59.33 [1984)3 AllE.R.369.J4 (1986)O.B. 491.35 (1986)A.C. 909.J6 [1984)A.C. 447.37 Selling their own tea, coffee, sandwiches etc. to British Rail passengers.J8 [1981)1 W.L.R. 355. The working party dea......