R v Croft
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1944 |
| Court | Court of Criminal Appeal |
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14 cases
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R v Becerra
...to adopt it in its entirety as a correct statement of the law which is to be applied in this case. 25 The last case, an English one, is Rex v. Croft, a well known case of a suicide pact, 1944 1 King's Bench 295, where, under the old law, the survivor of a suicide pact was charged with and c......
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R (on the application of Nicklinson and another) v Ministry of Justice; R (on the application of AM) v DPP
... ... As suicide was regarded as self-murder before 1961, a person who aided or encouraged another person to commit suicide committed an offence; thus, the survivor of a suicide pact was guilty of murdering the successful self-murderer – see R v Croft [1944] 1 KB 295 ... Section 4 of the 1957 Act provided that such a survivor would only be guilty of manslaughter. However, the abolition of suicide four years later as a crime meant that it was necessary to address the question of what to do about assisting and encouraging suicide ... 20 ... ...
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Nicklinson v Ministry of Justice; R (on the applicaion of AM) v DPP
...Adjudicator, Do v Secretary of State for the Home Dept[2004] UKHL 26, [2004] 3 All ER 785, [2004] 2 AC 323, [2004] 3 WLR 23. R v Croft [1944] 2 All ER 483, [1944] 1 KB 295, CCA. R v DPP, ex p Kebeline, R v DPP, ex p Rechachi [1999] 4 All ER 801, sub nom R v DPP, ex p Kebilene [2000] 2 AC 32......
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R (Nicklinson) v Ministry of Justice (Attorney General and another intervening) R (AM) v DPP and Others (Same intervening) [DC]
...[2009] 3 WLR 403. R v Adams (Bodkin) [1957] Crim LR 365. R v Arthur (1981) 12 BMLR 1. R v Cox (1992) 12 BMLR 38, Crown Ct. R v Croft [1944] 2 All ER 483, [1944] 1 KB 295, R v Inglis [2010] EWCA Crim 2637, 117 BMLR 65, [2011] 1 WLR 1110, [2011] 2 Cr App Rep (S) 66, [2011] Crim LR 243. R v R ......
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