R v Kennedy (Simon)
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1999 |
| Year | 1999 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) |
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11 cases
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R v Simon Kennedy
...Justice Hidden and His Honour Judge Rivlin QC, dismissed the appellant's appeal against his conviction for manslaughter ( R v Kennedy [1999] Crim LR 65). 6 The Commission made their reference because: i) Recent decisions of this court had cast doubt upon the correctness of the reasoning of ......
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R v Simon Kennedy
...his appeal was dismissed by the Court of Appeal Criminal Division (Waller LJ, Hidden J and His Honour Judge Rivlin QC) on 31 July 1998: [1999] Crim LR 65. On that appeal the appellant no longer disputed that he had supplied the heroin to the deceased, and that has not since been in 5 Prompt......
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Burns v The Queen
...the drug by the defendant and the death of [the deceased].’ 13 Dalby and Dias were referred to with approval by the House of Lords in R v Kennedy (No 2)31. There, their Lordships said 32: ‘the act of supplying, without more, could not harm the deceased in any physical way, let alone cause......
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R v Richards (Darrell) (No.1)
...that he had injected the fatal dose, the prosecution's case was that he had injected the fatal dose. However, the case of Kennedy [1999] Crim. L.R. 65 had recently been reported. In Kennedy, it had been held that it was unlawful for a person to inject himself with a controlled drug, it was ......
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7 books & journal articles
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Kennedy and Unlawful Act Manslaughter: An Unorthodox Application of the Doctrine of Causation
...and hold theappellant responsible for the victim’s decision to inject. Other cases of a similarnature include: R v Kennedy (No. 1) [1999] Crim LR 65, R v Richards [2002] EWCACrim 3175, R v Dias [2002] 2 Cr App R 96, R v Rogers [2003] 2 Cr App R 160, R vFinlay [2004] EWCA Crim 3868, historic......
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R v Kennedy Revisited
...where D’s act or omission is the* LLB (Hons); e-mail michael_nkrumah007@hotmail.com.1 [2007] UKHL 38, [2007] 3 WLR 612.2R v Kennedy [1999] Crim LR 65; R v Kennedy [2005] EWCA Crim 685, [2005] 1WLR 2159.117The Journal of Criminal Law (2008) 72 JCL ‘but for’ cause of the given result. This si......
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Court of Appeal
...a voluntary act by anindividual may break the chain of causal liability. The first in the seriesof those decisions was Kennedy (No. 1) [1999] Crim LR 65. In that casethe defendant was found guilty of manslaughter because he had pre-pared a syringe of heroin and the victim had injected hims......
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Causation and Assisting Drug-Abuse Injection
...for the offence of supplying a Class A controlled drug.His appeal against his conviction for manslaughter was dismissed (see Rv Kennedy [1999] Crim LR 65).The Journal of Criminal Subsequently, the Criminal Cases Review Commission made its refer-ence on two predicates. First, that recent dec......
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