R v Lemon
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judge | LORD JUSTICE ROSKILL |
| Judgment Date | 17 March 1978 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1978] EWCA Crim J0317-1 |
| Docket Number | No. 3970/R/77 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) |
| Date | 17 March 1978 |
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7 cases
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R (Green) v City of Westminster Magistrates' Court
... ... The offence of blasphemous libel ... 10 Although it is very rarely invoked, the existence of the offence of blasphemous libel is established in English law. That is demonstrated by the decision of the House of Lords in Whitehouse v Lemon [1979] AC 617 , where the point was conceded after elaborate review of its history in the Court of Appeal. Before that case, the last known instance of the offence being invoked was in 1922. There appears to have been no other since 1979 until the present. Nevertheless, Mr Pannick QC and Miss ... ...
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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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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 Lemon R v Gay News Ltd
...to protect the religious beliefs and feelings of non-Christians (post, p. 658B). Decision of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) [1979] Q.B. 10; [1978] 3 W.L.R. 404; [1978] 3 All E.R. 175 affirmed. The following cases are referred to in their Lordships' opinions: Bowman v. Secular Socie......
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Popular Names Index to UK Cases and EU Legislation and Cases
...to improve the transparency of gas and electricity prices charged to industrial end-users (OJ 1990 L185/16) Gay News Case R v Lemon [1979] 1 QB 10 Whitehouse v Lemon [1979] AC 617 Gay Cake Case Lee v Ashers Baking Co Ltd [2018] UKSC 49; [2018] 3 WLR 1294 GCHQ Case or Government Communicatio......