R v Miller (Peter)
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1954 |
| Court | Assizes |
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39 cases
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R v R [1991]
...was revoked. Thus, in my opinion, the husband was not entitled to have intercourse with her without her consent." 16 In Reg. v. Miller [1954] 2 Q.B. 282 the husband was charged with rape of his wife after she had left him and filed a petition for divorce. He was also charged with assault up......
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R v BM
...harm means any injury “calculated to interfere with the health and comfort of the [victim]” but must be more than transient or trifling: R v Miller [1954] 2 QB 282 at 292. A wound is caused when the whole of the skin, dermis and epidermis, is broken including the inner skin within the cheek......
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R v Barry C
...intercourse would fall within the shadow of the protection that a wife has against prosecution for rape … of his wife". In R v Miller [1954] 2 QB 282 it was held that a husband who had forcible sexual intercourse with his wife after she had presented a petition for divorce could not be conv......
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PGA v The Queen
...will know that he was a judge of the highest repute. As a criminal lawyer, there were not many to excel him in his day.’ In R v Miller [1954] 2 QB 282 at 289 Lynskey J concurred with R v Clarke. 152 R v O'Brien [1974] 3 All ER 663. 153 R v Steele (1976) 65 Cr App R 22. 154 R v Steele (1......
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16 books & journal articles
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Offences against the Person: Into the 21st Century
...or an assault and on Stephen J’s view therewas a battery, a touching.) If this law were modern law, then s. 20 would21 R v Miller [1954] 2 QB 282 at 292. See, e.g., R (on the application of T) v DPP [2003]EWHC 266 (Admin): momentary loss of consciousness—‘an injurious impairmentto the victi......
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Exorcism, Religious Freedom and Consent
...mean harm which is more than transient or trifling, but need not bepermanent:RvDonovan [1934] 2 KB 498, 25 Cr App Rep 1, CCA; RvMiller [1954] 2 QB 282; RvChan Fook [1994] 2 AllER 552. Psychological harm is included, but only where identifiable psychiatric injury can be demonstrated: RvDhali......
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Divisional Court
...the word‘bodily’ restricts this offence to the causing of physical as opposed topsychological or psychiatric injuries. In R v Miller [1954] 2 QB 282,where a husband forced his wife to have sexual intercourse, it was heldthat actual bodily harm was not limited to skin, flesh or bones, butin......
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Not Giving Up the Fight
...Smith [1961] AC 290 at 334.26. Dica [2004] QB 1257 at 1257.27. Taylor [2009] EWCA Crim 544.28. Donovan [1934] 2 KB 298 at 509.29. Miller [1954] 2 QB 282 at 285.30. Roberts (1971) 56 Cr App R 95.31. Above n. 2 at para 1.8.32. Ibid. at paras 1.8–1.9.33. Ibid. at para 5.106.34. Ibid. at para 5......
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