R v O'Driscoll
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judge | LORD JUSTICE WALLER,THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE |
| Judgment Date | 27 January 1977 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1977] EWCA Crim J0127-9 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) |
| Docket Number | No. 221/A/75 |
| Date | 27 January 1977 |
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4 cases
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R v Caldwell
...Q.B. 421, at 429C, "In many cases the dividing line between intention and recklessness is barely distinguishable". So in O'Driscoll (1977) 65 Cr. App. R. 50, where the charge was one of manslaughter caused by setting fire to a house, Waller L.J., giving the judgment of the Court of Appeal ......
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R v Stephenson
...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 Act for a person to say that he was deprived self-induced intoxica......
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R v Orpin
...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......
- R v Caldwell
1 books & journal articles
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Unlawful and Dangerous
...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......