R v Kingston
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 21 July 1994 |
| Date | 21 July 1994 |
| Court | House of Lords |
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14 cases
- R v Kingston
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Maycock et Al v Commissioner of Police
...- worthiness of the persons charged would be relevant to the question of sentencing. As the House of Lords ruled in R v. Kingston [1994] 3 W.L.R. 519, the absence of moral fault by a defendant did not suffice by itself to negate the necessary mental element of the offence with which he was ......
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Narine Sooklal and Another v The State
...of a charge from murder to manslaughter that the evidence shows that the accused was drunk. As Lord Mustill said in Reg. v. Kingston [1995] 2 A.C. 355, 369C:- "… it is no answer for the defendant to say that he would not have done what he did had he been sober, provided always that whateve......
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Re A (Children) (Conjoined Twins: Surgical Separation)
...context he and other counsel drew attention to some cautionary observations in recent cases in the House of Lords ( R v Kingston [1995] 2 AC 355, 375, 377; Hunter v Canary Wharf [1997] AC 655, 707; Kleinwort Benson v Lincoln City Council [1999] 2 AC 349, 378�9). The case put forward by M......
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14 books & journal articles
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Table of Cases
...CR (4th) 381, [1995] JQ no 1325 (CA) ............................................................................... 442 R v Kingston, [1994] 3 All ER 353, [1994] 3 WLR 519, 158 JP 717 (HL).................................................................................... 116, 303 R v Kirk......
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The Prohibited Act, or Actus Reus
...King , [1962] SCR 746 at 749. In England, however, an accused was convicted despite the involuntary consumption of drugs. R v Kingston , [1994] 3 WLR 519 (HL). 110 R v Théroux , [1993] 2 SCR 5 at 17. 111 R v Hundal , [1993] 1 SCR 867. But see Beatty , above note 52 at para 43, where it is s......
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Table of cases
...CR (4th) 381, [1995] JQ no 1325 (CA) ................................................................................461 R v Kingston, [1994] 3 All ER 353, [1994] 3 WLR 519, 158 JP 717 (HL) ...........121 R v Kirkby (1985), 10 OAC 356, 21 CCC (3d) 31, [1985] OJ No 166 (CA) .......................
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The Prohibited Act, or Actus Reus
...(1962), 133 CCC 1 at 3 (SCC). In England, however, an accused was convicted despite the involuntary consumption of drugs. R v Kingston , [1994] 3 WLR 519 (HL). 101 R v Théroux (1993), 79 CCC (3d) 449 at 458 (SCC). 102 R v Hundal (1993), 79 CCC (3d) 97 (SCC). But see Beatty , above note 51 a......
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