R v Knuller (Publishing, Printing and Promotions) Ltd
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 1972 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 1972 |
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100 cases
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Douglas v DPP
...28 The history of the offence was further considered by the English House of Lords in Knuller v. Director of Public Prosecutions [1973] A.C. 435. The appellants were directors of a company which published a magazine containing advertisements which invited readers to meet the advertisers 'f......
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R v Bishop
...common man or woman still regards as immoral or wrong is not wide enough to support We respectfully agree with the opinion of Lord Reid. in Knuller's case, 1973 Appeal Cases, 435 at page 457, that "there is a material difference between merely exempting certain con-duct from criminal penal......
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R v Greater London Council, ex parte Blackburn
...(1875) 1 Queen's Bench, p. 15. 18 This common law offence was clearly recognised by the House of Lords in Knuller's Case (1973) A. C. 435. Lord Reid said (at p. 458) in this context that indecency "includes anything which an ordinary decent man or woman would find to be shocking, disgustin......
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R Ats. Thorpe v Molyneaux
...1966 as shown in cases such as Jones (& Hudson) v. Secretary of State [1972] A.C. 944, and Knuller (Publishing etc.) Ltd. v. D.P.P. [1973] A.C. 435, while its beneficial effects are demonstrated in cases such a Miliangos v. George Frank (Textiles) (Ltd.) [1976] A.C. 443. 182 I am of opinion......
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31 books & journal articles
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Fair notice and fair adjudication: two kinds of legality.
...cases involving consensual sex where judges stretched to impose criminal liability."); see also Knuller v. Dir. of Pub. Prosecutions, [1973] A.C. 435, 457 (H.L. 1972) (appeal taken from Eng.) (holding that although homosexual acts had been recently legalized, the defendant was nonetheless g......
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Table of Cases
...180–181 R v Kearley [1992] 2 AC 228, [1992] 2 WLR 656, [1992] 2 All ER 345, HL 59 R v Knuller (Publishing, Printing and Promotions) Ltd [1973] AC 435, [1972] 3 WLR 143, 56 Cr App R 633, HL 58 R v Lambert [2001] UKHL 37, [2002] 2 AC 545, [2001] 3 WLR 206, [2001] 3 All ER 577 7, 63 R v Nation......
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Sticks, Stones and Words: Emotional Harm and the English Criminal Law
...and G. R. Sullivan, Criminal Law, Theory and Doctrine, 3rd edn (HartPublishing: Oxford, 2007) 395.87 [1963] 2 QB 717; Knuller v DPP [1973] AC 435.88 Mayling itself involved indecent conduct in a public lavatory, but see also R vCrunden (1809) 2 Camp 89 (nude bathing); R v Howell and Bentley......
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Subject Index
...382 ...... 68Kamleh v The Queen [2005] HCA 2 ....... 1, 24217–218Kewa v R [2004] NZCA 267 ..........................13 9Knuller v DPP [1973] AC 435 ........................ 31Kostovski v Netherlands (1989) 12 EHRR434 ................................................................... 2 93Ku......
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