R v Evans

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1962
Date1962
CourtCourt of Criminal Appeal
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39 cases
  • R v Gosney
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 5 July 1971
    ...even though he had been completely blameless, he can be held liable." 10 A little later this was said: "The case of Evans" ( ( R. v Evans 1963 1 Q.B.42) "now sets out quite clearly that the test is a purely objective one and it matters not why the dangerous situation was caused or the dange......
  • R v Gosney
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 5 July 1971
    ...even though he had been completely blameless, he can be held liable." 10 A little later this was said: "The case of Evans" ( ( R. v Evans 1963 1 Q.B.42) "now sets out quite clearly that the test is a purely objective one and it matters not why the dangerous situation was caused or the dange......
  • Ng Beng Kok v PP
    • Malaysia
    • Court of Appeal (Malaysia)
    • Invalid date
  • R v Murphy (William)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 7 March 1980
    ...involved in this section were finally resolved in so far as driving in a manner which was dangerous to the public was concerned in Regina v. Evans (1962) 3 All E.R. 1086 at page 1088 where Lord Justice Fenton Atkinson said: "It is quite clear from the reported cases that, if a man in fact a......
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2 books & journal articles
  • DEFINING THE FAULT ELEMENTS OF DRIVING OFFENCES
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2007, December 2007
    • 1 December 2007
    ...1 MLJ 204 at 205. 25 Lim Poh Eng v PP [1969-1971] SLR 247 at 251 per Choor Singh J, after considering the English case of R v Evans(1962) 47 Cr App R 62. 26 Id, at 250. 27 PP v Teo Lian Seng [1996] 1 SLR 19. 28 [1971] 3 All ER 220 at 224. This judicial pronouncement has since been embodied ......
  • Causing Death by Dangerous Driving
    • United Kingdom
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles No. 36-5, May 1963
    • 1 May 1963
    ...Hill v, Baxter [1958] 1 All E.R.193; [1958] 1 Q.B. 277.The mental element was dealt with at some length in the appealcaseofR. v. Evans [1962] 3 W.L.R. 1457; (1963) Crim. L.R. 112,which has been summarized in this Journal's"RecentJudicialDecisions" and commented upon by Mr. JohnGottin the Ap......

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