R v Morris (Harold)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeLORD JUSTICE DUNN
Judgment Date20 March 1984
Judgment citation (vLex)[1984] EWCA Crim J0320-10
Docket NumberNos. 123/C/83: 167/C/83
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Date20 March 1984

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  • R v Bentham (Peter)
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 10 March 2005
    ...we are confronted, one is left, as it seems to us, in this position. In our judgment, the wording of the English statute as explained in R v Morris shows that the ruling of the circuit judge in the present case was right. If the matter had gone to trial (and what is important is the view of......
  • R v Bentham (Peter)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 10 May 2005
    ...refers to an imitation of the weapon and cannot be stretched to include a simulation of conduct or actions." 21 In Morris and King (1984) 79 Cr App R 104 the Canadian case of Sloan was considered in this Court. The two appellants had committed a robbery at a jeweller's shop when one of the......
  • R v John Williams
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 7 June 2006
    ...the thing had to be adapted or altered to be made to look like a firearm, like the metal pipes bound together, in R v Morris and King [1984] 79 Cr App R 104. A stick or table leg within a bag might have the appearance of a firearm. The question of whether the jury is persuaded that the thin......
  • K v DPP
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • Invalid date
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