R v Larkin
Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
Date | 1943 |
Court | Court of Criminal Appeal |
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Attorney General's Reference (No. 3 of 1994)
...on the child'S mother. That was an unlawful act, and it was also an act which was dangerous in the sense indicated by Humphreys J. in Rex v. Larkin (1942) 29 Cr.App.R. 18, 23 in the passage which was quoted with approval by Lord Salmon in D.P.P. v. Newbury [1977] A.C. 500, 506-7. Dangerous......
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Gray v Barr
...see Andrews v. D. P. P. (1937 A. C. 576); and Weapon manslaughter" when an unlawful and dangerous act has been said to be enough, see Rex v. Larkin (1943 29 Cr. App. R. 58) But I do not think it necessary to go into the matter at length. I would only say this In manslaughter of every kind ......
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DPP v Newbury ; DPP v Jones
...in accordance with established law, which, possibly with one exception to which I shall presently refer, has never been challenged. In R. v. Larkin 29 Cr. App. R. 18, Humphreys J, said at page 23 "Where the act which a person is engaged in performing is unlawful, then if at the same time i......
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10 books & journal articles
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Unlawful and Dangerous
...at [8].8. See e.g. T[2006] 7 WWR 102; 199 CCC (3d) 551; 31 CR (6th) 187; 195 Man R (2d) 89, Manitoba Court of Appeal at [5].9. Larkin [1943] KB 174; Lamb [1967] 2 QB 981; Pagett (1983) 76 Cr App R 279; Arobieke [1988] Crim LR 314; Ball [1989]Crim LR 730; Lewis [2010] EWCA Crim151.10. Church......
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Court of Appeal
...act manslaughter has entailed discussion as towhat type of act will be sufficient to ascribe culpability for homicide. InR v Larkin [1943] KB 174 the Court of Appeal held that not only shouldthe unlawful act be criminal in nature (as opposed to a mere negligentlycommitted act, see Andrews ......
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The plea of accident in the criminal law
...of the mental element of murder results in defendants being classified as murderers who are not in truth murderers ... " 59 [1943] 1 All E.R. 217. 60 St. Vincent and the Grenadines (unrep.) No. 5 of 1982 (25.7.83). 61 Cf. Gray v. Barr, supra n.58, and Iromantu v. The State [1964] 1 All N.L.......
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Ex Turpi Causa and Gross Negligence Manslaughter
...Lord Atkin inAndrews vDPP,22 it is not to be treated as an unlawful act for the purposesof unlawful act manslaughter:20 [1920] AC 479.21 [1943] KB 174.22 [1937] AC 576 at 585.Ex Turpi Causa and Gross Negligence There is an obvious difference in the law of manslaughter between doingan unlawf......
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