R v Meech
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judge | LORD JUSTICE ROSKILL,To |
| Judgment Date | 12 July 1973 |
| Neutral Citation | [1973] EWCA Crim J0712-1 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1973] EWCA Crim J0712-2 |
| Date | 12 July 1973 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) |
| Docket Number | No. 773/B2/73 No. 954/B2/73 |
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R v Morris (David)
...goods were diverted from their true destinations, there had been no assumption of rights and so there was only one appropriation. 29 R. v. Meech (1973) 3 All E.R. 939 . In this case the defendant cashed a cheque in accordance with the instructions of the owner. At the moment he received ......
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The Crown v Gary Quillan and Others
...and to us which they submitted supported this contention. They were R v Hall (1972) 56 Cr App R 547, Wakeman v Farrar [1974] CLR 136, R v Meech & Ors (1974) 58 Cr App R74, R v McHugh [1993] 97 Cr App R 335, R v Wain [1995] 2 Cr App R 660, Klineberg v Marsden [1999] 1 Cr App R 427, R v Floyd......
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R v Morris (David)
...have followed it. It is wholly consistent with the principles which I have endeavoured to state in this speech. 24 It has been suggested that Meech (1974) 1 Q.B. 549, Skipp (1975) Crim. L.R. 114 - your Lordships also have a transcript of the judgment in this case - and certain other cases a......
- R v Atakpu and Another
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'Born again' in barbados: the theft act, 1992
...was held by Lord Roskill in Morris that there need be no act observable in this sense. 47 Skipp [1975] Critn. L.R. 114; and cf. Meech [1973] 3 All E.R. 939; Hircock (1978) 67 Cr. App. R. 278; A.G. for Hong Kong v. Chan NaiKeung (1988) 86 Cr. App. R. 174; McHugh v. Tringham [1989]3 All E.R. ......
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Taking possession: the defining element of theft?
...above n 4. (174) That is, the act falls within the meaning of an appropriation. (175) See, eg, R v Hinks [2001] 2 AC 241. (176) [1974] QB 549. (177) Ormerod and Williams, above n 97, 93; Smith, above n 135, 113-14. (178) (Unreported, Manchester Crown Court, Judge Da Cunha, 20 December 1972)......