R v Martin Burke

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeLord Justice Aikens
Judgment Date20 April 2012
Neutral Citation[2012] EWCA Crim 770
Docket NumberCase No: 2011/4004/B3,2011/4004/B3
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Date20 April 2012

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3 cases
  • Marc Martin Wells, Sarfraz Masud, Susan Hone, Tony Nicholas Alan Kail v R
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 20 January 2015
    ...which this defendant had at the time.’ 14. The second example is nearer to the facts of some of the present applications. R v B (M)MHLR[2015] MHLR 105, [2012] 2 CrAppR 15 at p164 concerned the offence of voyeurism in a s4A(2) hearing following a determination of unfitness to plead by a defe......
  • R v Wells & others
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 22 July 2015
  • The Queen v Y
    • New Zealand
    • Court of Appeal
    • 5 October 2012
    ...15 At [18], citing Bruce Robertson (ed) Adams on Criminal Law (online looseleaf ed, Brookers) at [CA212]. 16 See generally R v B [2012] EWCA Crim 770, [2012] 3 All ER 1093, which deals with s 67(1) 17 At [27]. 18 Above at [11]. of the Crimes Act 1961. It is common ground between counsel t......
3 books & journal articles
  • Unfitness to Plead and the Trial of Facts: A Critical Review of the Law Commission's Proposals and the Decision in R v MB
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 76-5, October 2012
    • 1 October 2012
    ...Review 173.5 Law Commission, Unf‌itness to Plead, Law Com. Consultation Paper No. 197 (2010)(hereafter ‘LCCP’), para. 6.70.6Rv MB [2012] EWCA Crim 770, [2012] 2 Cr App R 15.421The Journal of Criminal Law (2012) 76 JCL mens rea, and this article will place particular emphasis on the diff‌icu......
  • High Court
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 82-1, February 2018
    • 1 February 2018
    ...2 Cr App R 12 at [12]). Of late, there has been an increase inoffences that amalgamate the mental element into the actus reus (see B[2012] EWCA Crim 770, [2013]1 WLR 499); this presents obvious difficulties in cases when a defendant raises a plea of not guilty byreason of insanity. Case law......
  • Unfitness to Plead: Expanding the Scope of ‘Objective Evidence’ on the ‘Trial of the Facts’
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 79-3, June 2015
    • 1 June 2015
    ...the court referred to the well-known, controversial cases of R (Young) vCentral Criminal Court[2002] 2 Cr App R 12 and RvMB [2012] EWCA Crim 770.In Young the accused was charged with dishonestly concealing material facts contrary to s.47 of theFinancial Services Act 1986 and was found unfit......

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