R v Lemon
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) |
| Judge | LORD JUSTICE ROSKILL |
| Judgment Date | 17 March 1978 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1978] EWCA Crim J0317-1 |
| Docket Number | No. 3970/R/77 |
| Date | 17 March 1978 |
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7 cases
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R (Green) v City of Westminster Magistrates' Court
...of the law of criminal blasphemous libel was carefully traced by Roskill LJ when Whitehouse v Lemon was in the Court of Appeal [1979] 1 QB 10, in an analysis which received clear endorsement when the case reached the House of Lords. Roskill LJ observed (at 18G): "The state only became inter......
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R v Gibson ; R v Sylveire
... ... In their Lordships' judgment the requirements with regard to mens rea should be the same in outraging public decency as they were in the cognate common law offence of obscene libel. If that was so, the decision of the House of Lords, albeit by a majority in Lemon, indicated that the contentions of the prosecution in the present case were to be preferred. Passages by Lord Russell of Killowen in Lemon (at pp657-658) summarized the majority views and they and Mr Worsley's submissions led their Lordships to the conclusion that, where the charge was one of ... ...
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R v Chief Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate, ex parte Choudhury
...submits that we should. But this dictum, which was not repeated in the judge's summing up, received no support from the Court of Appeal [1979] 1 Q.B. 10, nor the House of Lords [1979] A.C. 617. The only issue that arose on appeal related to the mens rea of the offence. As to that Lord Diplo......
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