R v Hill

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeLORD JUSTICE ROBERT GOFF,LORD JUSTICE ROBERT GOFF: Very well.
Judgment Date22 February 1985
Judgment citation (vLex)[1985] EWCA Crim J0222-11
Docket NumberNo. 2404/C1/84
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Date22 February 1985

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  • Jordan Thompson v R
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 19 December 2013
    ...thing, and the mens rea would be that the appellant had the intention to endanger Nathan's life. 51 In Phillip Frederick Hill (1985) 81 Cr App R 206, Robert Goff LJ (as he then was) pointed out that in the opinion of the court, the expression ‘unlawfully’ bore its ordinary meaning of ‘witho......
  • R v Sed (Ali Dahir)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 26 May 2004
    ...statement understood the nature of the oath or appreciated the nature of the proceedings, as formerly required for live evidence: see e.g. R v. Hill (1851) 2 Den 254; R v. Dunning [1965] Crim LR 372 and R v. Bellamy [1986] 82 Cr App R 222. And he prayed in aid the reasoning of this Court in......
  • Alan Wilkinson and Lord Chancellor's Department and official Solicitor
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 4 February 2003
    ...is one of the most important aspects of this summary procedure, which is in many ways Draconian." This approach was taken further in R v Hill [1986] Crim LR 457, where a woman who had made a disturbance in the public gallery was detained overnight and then committed to prison for seven days......
  • Thompson v R
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 19 December 2012
    ...thing, and the mens rea would be that the appellant had the intention to endanger Nathan's life. 51 In Phillip Frederick Hill (1985) 81 Cr App R 206, Robert Goff LJ (as he then was) pointed out that in the opinion of the court, the expression “unlawfully” bore its ordinary meaning of “witho......
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