R v Cunningham

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtCourt of Criminal Appeal
Date1957
Year1957

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    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
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  • R v Cato
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 15 October 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 ......
  • R v Mowatt
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 20 June 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 min......
  • Jordan Thompson v R
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 19 December 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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23 books & journal articles
  • 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
    • 1 December 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
    • 1 June 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......
  • Lawmakers, Law Lords and Legal Fault: Two Tales from the (Thames) River Bank: Sexual Offences Act 2003; R v G and Another
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 68-2, March 2004
    • 1 March 2004
    ...appeared in both B and K.45 Law Commission, Offences of Damage to Property, Report No. 29, July 1970.46 As illustrated in R v Cunningham [1957] 2 QB 396 and R v Mowatt [1968] 1 QB421.47 [1957] 2 QB 396. Whilst in their Working Paper No. 23, Malicious Damage, 1969,the Law Commission refers w......
  • Proving Consent in Sexual Cases: Legislative Change and Cultural Evolution
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 9-1, January 2005
    • 1 January 2005
    ...evidence admissible under s. 101(1)(d) or s. 101(1)(g), andnot to evidence admitted under s. 101(1)(f).171 Whether under R v Cunningham [1957] 2 QB 396 or R v Caldwell [1981] 1 All ER 961, appliedin R v Pigg [1982] 2 All ER 591.172 [ 1976] AC 182.173 Home Off ice, above n. 8 at 14.174 A. J.......
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