R v Lowe

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1973
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
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10 cases
  • R v Sheppard
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 15 Enero 1980
    ...judge. 17 The latest authority on the point, and the authority which the circuit judge obviously drew inspiration from, is the case of The Queen v. Lowe (1973) 1 All E.R. 805. This is a decision of this court, and I will read the relevant part of the headnote first: "The Appellant, a man of......
  • R v Sheppard
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 27 Noviembre 1980
    ...the child if all that he knew was that the child had not been seen by a doctor. This appears from the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Reg. v. Lowe [1973] Q.B. 702 at p. 707. So Reg. v. Senior has been regarded as deciding that the offence under section 1(1) of the Act of 1933 is an absol......
  • R v Seymour (Edward)
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 21 Julio 1983
    ...decisions of the Court of Criminal Appeal and the Court of Appeal Criminal Division in R. v. Church (1968) 1 Q.B. 59 at p.68, and R. v. Lowe (1973) 1 Q.B. 702 at p.708, to neither of which was the attention of this House drawn in either Caldwell or Lawrence. This was also clearly the view t......
  • R v Stone
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 21 Diciembre 1976
    ...which are historically interesting but of small practical assistance. Mr. Coles relied principally upon the decision of this Court in Lowe (1973) 57 Criminal Appeal Reports, 365. In that case there were two counts, one alleging manslaughter of a child on the grounds that the defendants' cru......
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5 books & journal articles
  • Unlawful and Dangerous
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 81-2, April 2017
    • 1 Abril 2017
    ...from Downunder’ (2000) 43 Crim LQ 291 at 293.114. [1973] QB 702.115. Contrary to s. 1(1) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933.116. [1973] QB 702 at 709.152 The Journal of Criminal Law results in its death, we think that a charge of manslaughter should not be an inevitable consequence ......
  • Liability for Manslaughter by Omission: Don't Let the Baby Drown!
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 74-2, April 2010
    • 1 Abril 2010
    ...Act for England and Wales?, Law Com. ConsultationPaper No. 177 (2005); Murder, Manslaughter and Infanticide, Law Com. No. 304(2006).7 [1973] QB 702.8 Law Com. No. 304 (2006), above n. 6 at Part 9.9 M. Moore, Act and Crime: The Philosophy of Action and Its Implications for CriminalLaw (Oxfor......
  • Hit and Miss?: An Elementary Analysis of Domestic Criminal Statutes and Involuntary Manslaughter in Fatal Maritime Collisions and near Miss Incidents
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 78-1, February 2014
    • 1 Febrero 2014
    ...one main point of debate in this def‌inition in terms of constructive manslaughter—the mens rea. There is a common law notion 8 R v Lowe [1973] QB 702. 9 [1998] 1 Cr App R 91.10 R v Newbury and Jones [1977] AC 500.11 R v Willoughby [2001] 1 WLR 1880.12 R v JM and SM [2012] EWCA Crim 2293, (......
  • Reconstructing unlawful and dangerous act manslaughter
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 83-4, August 2019
    • 1 Agosto 2019
    ...death that is arguably beyond the controlof the defendant.4. R v Creamer [1966] 1 QB 72 (CCA) at 82 (Lord Parker CJ).5. R v Lowe [1973] QB 702 (CA) at 709 (Phillimore LJ) [Lowe].6. R v Scarlett (1994) 98 Cr App R 290 (CA) at 291 (Beldam LJ) [Scarlett].7. An omission is insufficient. A delib......
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