R v Fitzmaurice

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeMR. JUSTICE NEILL
Judgment Date08 July 1982
Judgment citation (vLex)[1982] EWCA Crim J0708-2
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Docket Number3895/B2/81
Date08 July 1982

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  • Villanueva, Villanueva and Baeza v R
    • Belize
    • Court of Appeal (Belize)
    • 13 March 2008
    ...which he enters an agreement unless it can also be shown that what he has agreed to do is unlawful.” 41 In Robert Fitzmaurice v. R (1983) 76 Cr. App. R. 17 , the Court of Appeal in England expressed the view that: “the right approach in the case of incitement is the same as that which was ......
  • R v Sirat
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 20 December 1985
    ...because he would be inciting the commission of an impossible crime. B cannot incite C, because C does not exist. On the basis of R. v. Fitzmaurice, (1983) 2 WLR 227, the judge rightly so directed the jury. Hence, since the jury convicted on count 2, it follows that they must have concluded......
  • Hksar v Jariabka Juraj
    • Hong Kong
    • Court of Appeal (Hong Kong)
    • 27 October 2016
    ...1 All ER 807, at 813 a and h. [26] R v Shepherd [1919] 2 KB 125, at 126; R v McDonough (1962) 47 Cr App R 37, at 38; R v Fitzmaurice [1983] 1 All ER 189, at [27] DPP v Armstrong [2000] Crim L.R. 379, at 380. [28] HKSAR v Jaribaka Jurai (CACC 321/2014; unreported, 28 November 2015 at paragra......
  • R. v Kong Yue Kwai
    • Hong Kong
    • Court of Appeal (Hong Kong)
    • 10 May 1996
    ...he would be inciting the commission of an impossible crime. B cannot incite C, because C does not exist. On the basis of Fitzmaurice (1983) 76 Cr.App.R. 17; [1983] Q.B. 1083, the judge rightly so directed the jury. Hence, since the jury convicted on count 2, it follows that they must have c......

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