R v Cunningham

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1957
Date1957
CourtCourt of Criminal Appeal
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92 cases
  • R v Criminal Injuries Compensation Board, ex parte Clowes
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • Invalid date
  • R v Mowatt
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • June 20, 1967
    ...case of this kind to give to the jury express instructions upon the meaning of the word "maliciously" such as those as are discussed in R.v. Cunningham, (1957, 2 Q.B., 396). "Unlawfully and maliciously" was a fashionable phrase of Parliamentary draftsmen in 1861. It runs as a theme with mi......
  • R v Cato
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • October 15, 1975
    ...Mr. Blom-Cooper says that "maliciously" requires some foresight into the consequences, and he has referred us to the case of Regina v. Cunningham, (1957) 2 Queen's Bench at page 396, which is put before us as authority for that proposition. 48 It was a rather unusual case. The prisoner had ......
  • Jordan Thompson v R
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • December 19, 2013
    ...what he had done would cause harm, or if he did not know whether it would, was reckless in that he did it anyway. Counsel relied on R v Roy Cunningham [1957] 2 All ER 412 R, 155 for the interpretation of malice. Counsel also contended that malice could be inferred from the fact that the app......
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27 books & journal articles
  • Misfeasance in public office: a very peculiar tort.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 35 No. 1, April 2011
    • April 1, 2011
    ...408-9 (Lord Bingham). (104) See, eg, Three Rivers [2003] 2 AC 1, 191-3 (Lord Steyn), citing R v Bowden [1996] 1 WLR 98, R v Cunningham [1957] 2 QB 396, R v Caldwell [1982] AC 341 and R v Lawrence [1982] AC (105) See, eg, A-G's Reference (No 3 of 2003) [2005] QB 73, 88-90 (Pill LJ); R v Quac......
  • Master or Servant: A Corporation's Liability for the Activities of a Ship's Master
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 72-6, December 2008
    • December 1, 2008
    ...above n. 39 at 351.84 (1925) 19 Cr App R 8.85 Ibid. at 11.86 Simester and Sullivan, above n. 70 at 267.87 R v Cunningham [1957] 2 QB 396.A Corporation’s Liability for the Activities of a Ship’s policies and practices were at fault. The major problem with this ap-proach is determining whethe......
  • 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
    • June 1, 2010
    ...isnecessary for a s. 20 conviction, requiring the defendant to see that he may inf‌lictsome bodily harm on the victim: see R vCunningham [1957] 2 QB 396 and R vMowatt [1968] 1 QB 421, aff‌irmed by Lord Ackner in R v Savage and Parmenter[1992] 1 AC 699 at 721.2R vKonzani [2005] 2 Cr App R 19......
  • Subject Index
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 9-4, December 2005
    • December 1, 2005
    ...15.............................................................. 3, 193R v Cummins [2004] VSCA 164 ....................6 4R v Cunningham [1957] 2 QB 396 .............. 25R v D(D) [2000] 2 SCR 275........... 92, 103, 105R v Derby Crown Court, ex p. Brooks ....175,178R v Dobson [2001] EWCA Cr......
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