R v Lesbini

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1914
Date1914
CourtCourt of Appeal
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25 cases
  • Dick et Al v R
    • Guyana
    • Court of Appeal (Guyana)
    • May 8, 1985
    ...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......
  • Public Prosecutor v KK
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • January 1, 2007
  • R v Morhall
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • July 20, 1995
    ...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......
  • R v Smith (Morgan James)
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • July 27, 2000
    ...approach to the matter. That advance can be traced from Welsh through such cases as Rex. v. Alexander [1913] 9 Cr. App. Rep. 139, Rex. v. Lesbini [1914] 3 K.B. 1116, Rex. v. Mancini [1942] A.C.1, and Holmes v. Director of Public Prosecutions [1946] A.C. 588 to Bedder v. Director of Publi......
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6 books & journal articles
  • Preliminary Sections
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Nigerian Supreme Court Cases. 1962 Preliminary Sections
    • November 11, 2022
    ...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. ......
  • Descent into Murder: Provocation's Stricture—The Prognosis for Women Who Kill Men Who Abuse Them
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 71-4, August 2007
    • August 1, 2007
    ...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......
  • A NEW RATIONALE FOR THE DOCTRINE OF PROVOCATION: APPLICATIONS TO CASES OF KILLING AN UNFAITHFUL SPOUSE.
    • United States
    • Columbia Journal of Gender and Law Vol. 37 No. 2, March 2019
    • March 22, 2019
    ...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......
  • What Future for Voluntary Manslaughter?
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 68-3, June 2004
    • June 1, 2004
    ...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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