R v Morgan

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtHouse of Lords
Year1975
Date1975

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83 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 ......
  • 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 afforde......
  • R v Lemon R v Gay News Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • Invalid date
    ...[1974] 2 All E.R. 41, H.L.(E.). Reg. v. Majewski [1977] A.C. 443; [1976] 2 W.L.R. 623; [1976] 2 All E.R. 142, H.L.(E.). Reg. v. Morgan [1976] A.C. 182; [1975] 2 W.L.R. 913; [1975] 2 All E.R. 347, H.L.(E.). Reg. v. Moxon (1841) 4 St.Tr.N.S. 693. Reg. v. Pooley (1857) 8 St.Tr.N.S. 1089 (App.A......
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6 books & journal articles
  • 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......
  • Rape: An unreasonable belief in consent should not be a defence
    • South Africa
    • Juta South African Criminal Law Journal No. , July 2021
    • 6 July 2021
    ...the perpetr ator’s belief was reasonable.97 However, the pervasive and persistent nature of patriarchy requires 94 In DPP v Morgan [1975] 2 All ER 347 the House of L ords held that an honest but unreasonable mi stake as to consent could con stitute a defence to a charge of r ape. Munro op c......
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