R v Mayling

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1963
CourtCourt of Criminal Appeal
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17 cases
  • Douglas v DPP
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 7 April 2017
    ...offence is said to be based on a number of old authorities, its modern manifestation in English case-law begins with Regina v. Mayling [1963] 2 Q.B. 717 in which an indictment was preferred against the defendant against whom two police officers gave evidence. They saw him follow a man into......
  • Bita v DPP
    • Ireland
    • Court of Appeal (Ireland)
    • 13 March 2020
    ...It has long been held that concepts of decency and indecency have been interchangeable. In the English decision of R v. Mayling [1963] 2 QB 717 it was held by the Court of Criminal Appeal in upholding a conviction for outraging public decency that “in addition to publicity as explained abo......
  • Bita v DPP
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 25 June 2018
    ...... . 20 Turning to the decision in Douglas v. DPP (No.2) [2017] IEHC 248 in which the offence charged was the common law offence of 'outraging public decency'. McDermott J. examined the English authorities starting with R v. Mayling [1962] 2 QB 717 and including Knuller v. DPP [1973] AC 435 (where one of the charges considered was conspiracy to outrage public decency), Regina v. Hamilton [2007] EWCA Crim 2062 , and R v. Gibson [1990] 2 QB 619 . He then went on to consider whether the offence as 'declared and ......
  • R v Simon Austin Hamilton
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 16 August 2007
    ...by anyone, there was no publicity and that his intention was irrelevant. The judge ruled principally in reliance of the decision in ( [1963] 2 QB 717 R v Mayling (47) Cr.App.R 102) that there was ample evidence upon which a jury could properly infer that the images were taken in public; th......
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3 books & journal articles
  • Sticks, Stones and Words: Emotional Harm and the English Criminal Law
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 74-6, December 2010
    • 1 December 2010
    ...83 at 494.85 Ibid.86 A. P. Simester and G. R. Sullivan, Criminal Law, Theory and Doctrine, 3rd edn (HartPublishing: Oxford, 2007) 395.87 [1963] 2 QB 717; Knuller v DPP [1973] AC 435.88 Mayling itself involved indecent conduct in a public lavatory, but see also R vCrunden (1809) 2 Camp 89 (n......
  • Treason Versus Outraging Public Decency: Over-Criminalisation and Terrorism Panics
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 84-1, February 2020
    • 1 February 2020
    ...not outrage any particular person; it need only have the potential to cause outrage to reasonable members of Britishsociety. R v Mayling [1963] 2 QB 717.110. R v Hamilton [2008] 2 W.L.R. 107 at 123.111. R v Gibson [1990] 2 Q.B. 619 at 629.112. R v Hamilton [2008] 2 W.L.R. 107 at 123.34 The ......
  • The Promotion Exams
    • United Kingdom
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles No. 37-3, March 1964
    • 1 March 1964
    ...on thepartofany observerofthe act, providedthatthe natureofthe act was suchthatpersons would have been disgusted: R. v.Mayling [1963] 2 W.L.R. 709.Forthe purposesofthis crime, a police officer may be disgustedand annoyed, sothatif the only persons who observe the act arepolice officers, the......

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