R v Kelly
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judge | Lord Wilberforce,Lord Edmund-Davies,Lord Fraser of Tullybelton,Lord Keith of Kinkel,Lord Roskill |
| Judgment Date | 28 July 1981 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1981] UKHL J0728-1 |
| Date | 28 July 1981 |
| Court | House of Lords |
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4 cases
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Mr Amjad Rihan v Ernst & Young Global Ltd
...under the laws of Great Britain. It does not extend to an offence under the law of foreign states. By similar reasoning, in R. v. Kelly [1982] AC 665, HL, the House held that “offence” in section 686(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 referred to acts which if done in England, Wales or Sc......
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Public Prosecutor v Ng Kok Wai
...The Prosecution’s second line of argument as to why s 180 should be an ambit provision is based on two English decisions – R v Kelly [1982] AC 665 (“Kelly”) and Re Adrian David Cumberworth (1989) 89 Cr App R 187 (“Cumberworth”). These decisions considered s 686(1) of the U.K. Merchant Shipp......
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Teddy v New Zealand Police Ca
...[19]. 65 R v Chilton [2006] 2 NZLR 341 (CA) at [83]. 66 Dahya v Dahya [1991] 2 NZLR 150 (CA) at 156. 67 See below at [70]. 68 R v Kelly [1982] AC 665 69 Sellers v Maritime Safety Inspector, above n 19, at 46–47. 70 Sections 244(2) and 267 (penalties in respect of discharge or escape of harm......
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R v Cumberworth
...that court shall have jurisdiction to try the offence as if it had been so committed". 10 It was argued in the case of R. v. Kelly (1982) A.C. 665, that the section dealt only with venue and not with the applicability of the English or Scots criminal law outside the jurisdiction of those tw......
1 books & journal articles
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Murder as an Offence under English Law
...XI Cox CC 198.32 This includes foreign vessels temporarily registered in the UK under s. 17 of theAct.33 [1972] 2 QB 384.34 R v Kelly [1982] AC 665.The Journal of Criminal to punish British passengers for misconduct aboard foreign ships at seaor even aboard foreign ships alongside foreign j......