R v Jordan

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1956
Year1956
CourtCourt of Criminal Appeal

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18 cases
  • R v Blaue
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 16 July 1975
    ...320-321 and Smith and Hogan, 3rd edition, p. 214. 8 There have been two cases in recent years which have some bearing upon this topic - Regina v. Jordan, (1956) 40 Criminal Appeal Reports and Smith. In Jordan the Court of Criminal Appeal, after conviction, admitted some medical evidence whi......
  • R v Smith
    • United Kingdom
    • Courts-Martial Appeal Court
    • Invalid date
    ... ... Dictum of Lord Wright in The Oropesa [1943] P. 32, 39; [1943] 1 All E.R. 211; Minister of Pensions v. Chennell [1947] K.B. 250; [1946] 2 All E.R. 719 applied ... Reg. v. Jordan (1956) 40 Cr.App.R. 152 distinguished ... APPEAL against conviction ... The appellant, Thomas Joseph Smith, a private soldier in the King's Regiment, took part in a fight between a company of his regiment and a company of the Gloucestershire Regiment, who were sharing barracks in Germany, on the ... ...
  • Syed Jafaralsadeg bin Abdul Kadir v Public Prosecutor
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 7 September 1998
    ... ... Hallet J in R v Jordan [1956] 40 Cr App R 152 earlier said that it is only in the most exceptional circumstances and subject to what may be described as exceptional conditions that the court is ever willing to listen to additional evidence. This attitude was followed by the local courts. I added further that the ... ...
  • Dunne v DPP
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 11 May 2016
    ...be raised as a defence (whether full or partial) to a charge of murder? Held by O?Malley J that, having considered R v Jordan?(1956) 40 Cr. App. R. 152, R v Steel?[1981] 1 WLR 690 and R v Pagett?(1983) 76 Cr. App. R. 279, to hold, in the circumstances, that the act of the appellant caused t......
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3 books & journal articles
  • Case Note
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2019, December - January 2019
    • 1 December 2019
    ...circumstances … subject to … exceptional circumstances, that the court is ever willing to listen to additional evidence”: R v Jordan (1956) 40 Cr App R 152, followed in Malaysia in such cases as Mohamed bin Jamal v Public Prosecutor [1964] MLJ 254 and Mohamad Jamil bin Che Din v Public Pros......
  • Rape: Consent
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 72-1, February 2008
    • 1 February 2008
    ...would appear to have been where the third-partyaction was either completely separate from the original harm inf‌licted (Rv Jordan (1956) 40 Cr App R 152) or completely unforeseeable (R vRoberts (1971) 56 Cr App R 95; R v Pagett (1983) 76 Cr App R 279). Thesecond appeal of Kennedy ((No. 2) [......
  • Gross Negligence Manslaughter Revisited: Time for a Change of Direction?
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 84-3, June 2020
    • 1 June 2020
    ...medical treatment because of a failure to read patient notes would no longer be a novus actus interveniens in rare cases like Jordan (1956) 40 Cr App R 152. 161. A. Merry, and A. McCall, ‘Errors, Medicine and the Law’ (Cambridge University Press, Oxford 2001).162. [2016] EWCA Crim 741.163. ......