R v Morgan

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1975
Year1975
CourtHouse of Lords
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107 cases
  • R v O'Driscoll
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 27 January 1977
    ...Criminal Damage Act. 15 The distinction between basic and specific intent was set out in the speech of Lord Simon of Glaisdale in the case of Morgan (1975) 2 Weekly Law Reports but quoted by the Lord Chancellor at page 4 of his speech in Majewski: "What then is the mental element required i......
  • DPP v Eadon
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 20 December 2019
    ...A.C. 443; [1976] 2 W.L.R. 623; [1976] 2 All E.R. 142; (1976) 62 Cr. App. R. 262. Reg. v. Morgan [1976] A.C. 182; [1975] 2 W.L.R. 913; [1975] 2 All E.R. 347; (1975) 61 Cr. App. R. 136. Reg. v. Sheehan [1975] 1 W.L.R. 739; [1975] 2 All E.R. 960; (1975) 60 Cr. App. R. 308. Ulster Bank Ireland ......
  • The People (Director of Public Prosecutions) v C. O'R
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 11 November 2016
    ...nonetheless believed that she was consenting. One such case where that issue was squarely raised was in the English case of R v Morgan [1976] AC 182 which concerned circumstances where a husband suggested to three of his friends that they should force themselves on his wife under the false ......
  • R v A (No 2)
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 17 May 2001
    ...in rape cases. It also inflicted unacceptable humiliation on complainants in rape cases. 28 In Director of Public Prosecutions v Morgan [1976] AC 182 the House of Lords held that in a trial for rape a subjective belief by the defendant that the victim consented to sexual intercourse afford......
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5 books & journal articles
  • Consent and the ‘Rough Sex’ Defence in Rape, Murder, Manslaughter and Gross Negligence
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 84-4, August 2020
    • 1 August 2020
    ...Criminal Law (Routledge, Oxford 2016) 78.41. SSM Edwards, Sex and Gender in the Legal Process (Blackstone Press, London 1996) 337.42. [1975] 2 All ER 347.298 The Journal of Criminal Law believed that she liked the additional thrill of a struggle43having been told by her husband that she was......
  • GENERAL AND SPECIFIC INTENT: THE QUIET DEATH OF THE SUBSTANTIVE UNDERSTANDING.
    • Canada
    • University of British Columbia Law Review Vol. 55 No. 2, November 2022
    • 1 November 2022
    ...beyond the achievement of an immediate end to include the furthering or achieving of a special end or object" at 371); DPP v Morgan, [1975] 2 All ER 347 (HL (Eng)) (where, attempting to classify an offence, Lord Simon asks: "Does it involve an intent going beyond the actus reus?" at 365). C......
  • Conditional Consent and Purposeful Deception
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 82-2, April 2018
    • 1 April 2018
    ...freedomto choose their sexual partner by gender,57 or choose their partner on any basis. As Spencer hasdescribed: 46. Morgan v DPP (1975) 2 All ER 347.47. A. Sharpe, ‘Criminalising Sexual Intimacy: Transgender Defendants and the Legal Construction of Non-Consent’, (2014) Criminal Law Review......
  • What’s law got to do with it? Comparing the failure to deter or convict rapists in the United Kingdom and South Africa
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Review of Victimology No. 26-2, May 2020
    • 1 May 2020
    ...Swansea Crown Court 435.12. Presentation by Waterhouse (2009) at the GHJRU, University of Cape Town.13. DPP v Morgan [1975] UKHL 3, [1976] AC 182, [1975] 2 WLR 913, [1975] 2 All ER 347, 61 Cr App R136, [1975] Crim LR 717 was a 1975 decision of the House of Lords.14. Youth Justice and Crimin......
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