R v Lesbini
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1914 |
| Court | Court of Appeal |
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23 cases
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Dick et Al v R
...a formidable degree of forensic and judicial learning, going back to the nineteenth century to R. v. Hayward (1833) 6 C. & P. 157, through R v. Lesbini [1914] 3 K.B. 1116 and Holmes v. Director of Public Prosecutions [1946] A.C. 588, and encompassing the quintessential R v. Duffy [1949] 1 A......
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Holley v AG
...making the objective comparison with a reasonable man no allowance could be made for a defendant said to be mentally deficient, and in R v Lesbini [1914] 3 KB 1116 that no account should be taken of an anti-semitic slur which, it seems, had provoked the defendant but would not have provoke......
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R v Morhall
...it had become established that it was not enough that the accused himself should have been provoked to act as he did At least after Rex v. Lesbini [1914] 3 K.B. 1116, a dual test had to be complied with, under which the conduct of the deceased towards the accused had to he such as (1) might......
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6 books & journal articles
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Preliminary Sections
...116; 32 T.L.R. 225; 60 Sol. Jo. 158; 25 Cox C.C. 304; 11 Crim. App. R. 293. 187 R. v. Lesbini, 24 Cox, C.C. 516; 11 Crim. App. R. 7 (1914) 3 K.B. 1116; 84 L.J.K.B. 1102; 1121 L.T. 175. 317 R. v. Linley, (1959) Crim. Law Rev. 123 296 R. v. Majekodunmi, 14 WACA 64 296 R. v. McVitie, 44 Crim. ......
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Descent into Murder: Provocation's Stricture—The Prognosis for Women Who Kill Men Who Abuse Them
...concept of proportionality is nevertheless still an important factual element inthe objective inquiry’ (at 712–13). See also R v Lesbini [1914] 3 KB 1116. 344 Provocation’s Stricture—The Prognosis for Women Who Kill Men Who Abuse for self-control and ruling that it is fixed (following Holle......
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A NEW RATIONALE FOR THE DOCTRINE OF PROVOCATION: APPLICATIONS TO CASES OF KILLING AN UNFAITHFUL SPOUSE.
...at 1339 40. (56) Broussard, supra note 8, at 184; Miller, supra note 8, at 262-63; Nourse, supra note 19, at 1342. (57) R. v. Lesbini [ 1914] 3 K.B. 1116 (58) Bedder v. D.P.P. [1954] 2 All E.R. 801 (Eng.). (59) Reg v. Camplin [ 1978] AC 705 (appeal taken from Eng.). (60) Coroners and Justic......
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What Future for Voluntary Manslaughter?
...Partial Excuses to Murder (Gaunt: 1991) 19–20.4 Law Com. Consultation Paper No. 173, paras 4.163–4.164.5 See Avory J, in R v Lesbini [1914] 3 KB 1116 at 1118.6 Law Com. Consultation Paper No. 173, para. 4.8. The Judicial Studies specimen direction to the jury (April 2003) as to the ‘special......
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