R v Mellor
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judge | Lord Justice Schiemann |
| Judgment Date | 29 February 1996 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1996] EWCA Crim J0208-27 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) |
| Docket Number | No. 95/1734/Y5 |
| Date | 29 February 1996 |
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3 cases
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William Johnston (junior)+charles Woolard V. Her Majesty's Advocate
...substance of a contribution made to the death which is more than negligible." The judgment delivered by Schiemann LJ in R v Mellor (1996) 2 Cr App R 245, another case concerned with supervening negligence, is to the same effect. Finally, in R v Warburton and Hubbersty [2006] EWCA Crim 627 t......
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R v Warburton and Hubbersty
...case to suggest that the original injury cannot be a cause of death if the victim would not have died from that injury. Both that case and Mellor [1996] 2 CR App R 245, referred to by Mr Spencer, stress that the test for the jury is a simple one: did the acts for which the defendant is resp......
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The State v Daniel (A/C Fries)
...he was in the hospital. Counsel submitted that the prosecution was under no duty to elicit evidence of treatment and advanced the case of R v. Mellor (1996) 2 Cr. App. R. 245 in support of this argument. In Mellor, the appellant was charged with the murder of a 71 year old man who was taken......