R v Gill

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1989
Year1989
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
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3 cases
  • R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Chinoy
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 10 April 1991
  • R v Looseley
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 25 October 2001
    ...in large scale drug dealing, conspiracy to rob ( R v Mealey and Sheridan (1974) 60 Cr App R 59 or hiring assassins ( R v Gill [1989] Crim LR 358; R v Smurthwaite [1994] All ER 898. The appropriate standards of behaviour are in such cases rather more problematic. And even in the case of o......
  • R v Smurthwaite ; R v Gill
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 11 August 1993
    ...evaded by the procedural device of preventing the prosecution adducing evidence of the commission of the offence." In Gill and Ranuana (1989) Crim LR 358, some reservations were expressed as to the correctness of those dicta in Harwood. 16 In our judgment, section 78 has not altered the sub......
1 books & journal articles
  • Court of Appeal
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 58-3, August 1994
    • 1 August 1994
    ...stated that s 78 has not had the effect of allowing the offenceofentrapment into English law; and, although doubt was cast in R v Gill[1989]Crim LR 358 on the correctness of the dicta in R v Harwood, LordTaylor CJ had no doubt about the matter in the present case: 's 78 hasnot altered the s......

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