R v O'Driscoll

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeLORD JUSTICE WALLER,THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Judgment Date27 January 1977
Judgment citation (vLex)[1977] EWCA Crim J0127-9
Docket NumberNo. 221/A/75
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Date27 January 1977

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5 cases
  • R v Stephenson
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 25 May 1979
    ...a "specific intent", but not to a charge of any other crime. The Criminal Damage Act 1971, section 1(1) involves no speoific intent (see R. v. O'Driscoll (1977) 65 C.A.R. at p. 54, 55). Accordingly it is no defence under the Actsection 1(1) and (3) of the Criminal Damage Act, 1971, and plea......
  • R v Caldwell
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 19 March 1981
    ...'specific intent', but not to a charge of any other crime. The Criminal Damage Act 1971, section 1(1) involves no specific intent: see Reg. v. O'Driscoll… Accordingly, it is no defence under the Act of 1977 for a person to say that he was deprived by self-induced intoxication of the ability......
  • Jaggard v Dickinson
    • United Kingdom
    • Divisional Court
    • Invalid date
  • R v Orpin
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 15 February 1980
    ...bound so to hold by the judgment in R. v. Stephenson, 1979 W.L.R. 193, and he said that a passage in the judgment of the court in R. v. O'Driscoll, indicating that the offence was one of specific intent, was obiter. The particular passage in R. v. Stephenson upon which the learned Judge rel......
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1 books & journal articles
  • Unlawful and Dangerous
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 81-2, April 2017
    • 1 April 2017
    ...criminal damage to property’ (A. Reed and B. Fitzpatrick,Criminal Law, 4th edn (Sweet & Maxwell: London, 2009) 363).15. O’Driscoll (1977) 65 Cr App R 50; Goodfellow [1986] Crim LR 468; Willoughby [2004] EWCA Crim 3365, [2005] 1 WLR1880; F&E[2015] EWCA Crim 351, [2015] 2 Cr App R 5.16. Dawso......