R v Dudley and Stephens
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Year | 1884 |
| Date | 1884 |
| Court | Queen's Bench Division |
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44 cases
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DPP for Northern Ireland v Lynch
...actions of the Appellant in the present case as one who aided and abetted. 40I see no reason to question the law as laid down in The Queen v. Dudley and Stephens L.R. 14 Q.B.D. 273, the authority of which will in my view be in no way disturbed if duress is held to be a possible defence in ......
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R v Howe; R v Bannister; R v Burke; R v Clarkson
...in Lynch at p. 695 of the report, or the more restrained exposition of Lord Kilbrandon at p. 702 on the law as expressed in Reg. v. Dudley and Stephens (1884) 14 Q.B.D. 273. These quotations are unnecessary since it seems to have been accepted both by the majority in Lynch and the minority ......
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R v Howe; R v Bannister; R v Burke; R v Clarkson
...the inevitable or almost inevitable result of not killing. 27Thus the judgment of Lord Coleridge, Chief Justice, in the famous case of Dudley and Stephens (1884) 14 Q.B.D. 273, where the necessity was imposed by circumstances, and where the defence of necessity was indeed advanced, seems to......
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R. v. Latimer (R.W.), (2001) 203 Sask.R. 1 (SCC)
...481, refd to. [para. 35]. R. v. Burke et al., [1987] 1 A.C. 417; 74 N.R. 1 (H.L.), refd to. [para. 40]. R. v. Dudley and Stephens (1884), 14 Q.B.D. 273, refd to. [para. United States v. Holmes (1842), 26 F. Cas. 360 (C.C.E.D. Pa.), refd to. [para. 40]. R. v. Underwood (G.R.), [1998] 1 S.C.R......
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1 firm's commentaries
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Brief Explainer: Defences to assault charges
...1 R v Loughnan [1981] VR 443; R v White (1987) 9 NSWLR 427. 2 Criminal Code (Cth) s.10.3. 3 R v Loughnan [1981] VR 443; R v Dudley (1884) 14 QBD 273; [1881-85] All ER Rep 61; R v Howe [1987] AC 417; [1987] 1 All ER What Is Self-Defence? A complete defence to a criminal charge whereby the ac......
48 books & journal articles
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Process, the Constitution, and substantive criminal law.
...certain, guilt of nine men regarded as sufficient warrant for the conviction of the tenth"). (41.) See Regina v. Dudley & Stephens, 14 Q.B.D. 273,288 (1884) (denying the defense of necessity while observing that "[i]t is not suggested that in this particular case the deeds were `devilis......
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TV or not TV - that is the question.
...on taped discussions with Kato Kaelin. The only thing Charles Lindbergh had on Kato was a New York parade. (333) In the Jeffrey Dahmer cannibalism case, when the mother of one of the victims learned that the judge had authorized a screenplay based on the judge's own accounts, she asked the ......
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Table of Cases
...v Jaggard; R v Lucas (Saxon); R v Carter; R v Cadman [1994] 1 AC 212, [1993] 2 WLR 556, [1993] 2 All ER 75, HL 62 R v Dudley & Stephens (1884) 14 QBD 273, 49 JP 69, 54 LJMC 32, CCR 138 R v Ghosh [1982] QB 1053, [1982] 3 WLR 110, [1982] 2 All ER 689, CA 210 R v Gilmore [1977] 2 NSWLR 935, NS......
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Popular Names Index to UK Cases and EU Legislation and Cases
...(OJ 1998 L14/6) Camel-Hair Belting Case Reddaway v Banham [1896] AC 199 Cann Case Abbey National Building Society v Cann [1991] 1 AC 56 Cannibalism Case R v Dudley and Stephens (1884) 14 QBD 273 Capital Adequacy Directive Council Directive 93/6/EEC of 15 March 1993 on the capital adequacy o......
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