R v Larkin

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1943
CourtCourt of Criminal Appeal
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  • Abdul Razak v PP
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 1 January 1961
  • Attorney General's Reference (No. 3 of 1994)
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 24 July 1997
    ...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......
  • Gray v Barr
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 30 March 1971
    ...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 ......
  • DPP v Newbury ; DPP v Jones
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 12 May 1976
    ...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
  • Unlawful and Dangerous
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 81-2, April 2017
    • 1 April 2017
    ...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......
  • Court of Appeal
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 71-2, April 2007
    • 1 April 2007
    ...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 ......
  • The plea of accident in the criminal law
    • Caribbean Community
    • Caribbean Law Review No. 11-2, December 2001
    • 1 December 2001
    ...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.......
  • Ex Turpi Causa and Gross Negligence Manslaughter
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 69-2, April 2005
    • 1 April 2005
    ...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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