R v Dalloway

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1847
CourtCourt of Criminal Appeal
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4 cases
  • R v Simon Austin Hamilton
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 16 August 2007
  • R v H
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 17 June 2011
    ...arguably his voluntary act of stepping under D's wheels; it was not the fact of D driving. The court dismisses the analogy to the case of Dalloway (1847) 2 Cox C.C. 273. In that case, D had been driving his horse and spring cart without holding the reins and had knocked down a young child w......
  • R v Williams (Jason)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 2 November 2010
    ...that morally blameworthy conduct was required: see Russell on Crime (12 edit 1964) at pages 18 to 25. We agree with Miss Whitehouse that R v Dalloway (1847) 2 Cox CC 273 (to which she initially referred us) is not clear authority for the general proposition that there must be a blameworthy......
  • R v Kuka Ca
    • New Zealand
    • Court of Appeal
    • 8 December 2009
    ... ... 31 These cases demonstrate that a range of standards of probability might be applied. An even lower standard was seemingly applied in R v Dalloway (1847) 2 Cox CC 273 , where Erle J held that if the accused “could” have saved the victim by performing a particular action, then he was guilty of manslaughter. The word “could” implies that it need only have been a possibility that the omitted action would have saved the victim. This is ... ...

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