R v Lemon R v Gay News Ltd
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Year | 1978 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 1978 |
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8 cases
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R. v. Stevens (B.G.), (1995) 100 Man.R.(2d) 81 (CA)
...Marie - see R. v. Sault Ste. Marie (City). R. v. Munslow, [1895] 1 Q.B. 758, refd to. [paras. 67, 236]. R. v. Lemon; R. v. Gay News, [1979] A.C. 617 (H.L.), refd to. [paras. 68, R. v. Law (1909), 19 Man. R. 259 (C.A.), refd to. [paras. 69, 246]. R. v. Georgia Straight Publishing Ltd. (1970)......
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Douglas v DPP
...crime of blasphemy rejected the view expressed by Lord Scarman (expressing the view of the majority in the House of Lords) in R v. Lemon [1979] A.C. 617 that it was only necessary to prove an intention to publish a blasphemy to establish guilt but that it was not necessary to prove any inte......
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R (Green) v City of Westminster Magistrates' Court
...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 inst......
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John Corway v Independent Newspapers (Ireland) Ltd and Others
...or the publisher because the mere words were regarded as revealing his intentions. This matter came to a head in Whitehouse v. Lemon [1979] 1 All ER 898 where the majority in the House of Lords held that an intention to publish blasphemous matter was sufficient mens rea to constitute the of......
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14 books & journal articles
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Popular Names Index to UK Cases and EU Legislation and Cases
...a Community procedure 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 G......
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Sticks, Stones and Words: Emotional Harm and the English Criminal Law
...238 (Coleridge CJ); Bowman vSecular Society Ltd [1917] AC 416.109 C. Kenny, ‘The Evolution of the Law of Blasphemy’ (1922) 1 CLJ 127.110 [1979] AC 617.111 [1979] AC 617 at 658.112 Thus the dissenting members of the Law Commission (below) recommended thereplacement of the old common law offe......
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Strict Criminal Liability: A Violation of the Convention?
...of118 B. A. Garner (ed.), Black’s Law Dictionary, 8th edn (West Publishing Co.:Minnesota, 2004) 181.119 R v Lemon and Gay News Ltd [1979] AC 617 at 665.120 R vChief Magistrate, ex p. Choudry [1991] 1 All ER 206 at 317.121 R. Dworkin, A Bill of Rights for Britain (Chatto & Windus: London, 19......
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Bearing a Constitutional Cross: Examining Blasphemy and the Judicial Role in Corway v. Independent Newspapers
...Court's refusal to clarify blasphemy on the grounds of uncertainty is unconvincing. Moreover, even if this authority is 36 Ibid. 37 [1979] 1 All ER 898; 143 JP 315; 123 Sol Jo 163. See Buxton, 'The Case of Blasphemous Libel" [1978] Crim LR 673. The majority of the House of Lords felt that s......
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