R v P. & O. European Ferries (Dover) Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1990
Year1990
CourtCentral Criminal Court
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6 cases
  • Transco Plc V. Her Majesty's Advocate
    • United Kingdom
    • High Court of Justiciary
    • 3 June 2003
    ...defendant." [15]A prosecution was subsequently brought arising out of the same maritime casualty, P & O European Ferries (Dover) Ltd (1991) 93 Cr. App. R. 72. In the subsequent trial, Turner J. ruled that an indictment for manslaughter might properly be held to lie against the eighth defend......
  • Transco Plc v HM Advocate
    • United Kingdom
    • High Court of Justiciary
    • 14 January 2005
    ...SCCR 343 Meridian Global Funds Management Asia Ltd v Securities CommissionELR [1995] 2 AC 500 P & O European Ferries (Dover) LtdUNK (1991) 93 Cr App R 72 Paton v HM AdvocateSC 1936 JC 19 Purcell Meats (Scotland) Ltd v McLeod 1987 SLT 528 Quinn v CunninghamSC 1956 JC 22 R v AdomakoELR [1995]......
  • Tom-Reck Security Services Pte Ltd v Public Prosecutor
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 19 February 2001
    ...acts beyond the scope of his delegated function, there is no vicarious liability. See also P & O European Ferries (Dover ) Ltd [1991] 93 Cr App R 72.The position is the same in Singapore law. This passage from Lord Reid`s judgment was applied by Chan Seng Onn JC in RHB-Cathay Securities Pte......
  • Re Oliver, inquest into death of Ojo Moyo
    • Trinidad & Tobago
    • High Court (Trinidad and Tobago)
    • 22 April 2009
    ...… against those who were to be identified as the embodiment of the company itself”. In R v. P. & O. European Ferries (Dover) Ltd. (1990) 93 Cr. App. R. 72, 84 Turner, J., in his classic analysis of the relevant principles, said that: “where a corporation, through the controlling mind of one......
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10 books & journal articles
  • Master or Servant: A Corporation's Liability for the Activities of a Ship's Master
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 72-6, December 2008
    • 1 December 2008
    ...lecturer inlaw at Sunderland and Durham Universities. He has been a mariner for over 30years and a master mariner since 1995.1 (1991) 93 Cr App Rep 72.2 Ibid. at 89.3 Ibid. at 84.4 C. M. V. Clarkson, ‘Corporate Culpability’ [1998] 2 Web JCLI 6.497The Journal of Criminal Law (2008) 72 JCL at......
  • ‘Too Scared to Prosecute and Too Scared to Jail?’ A Critical and Comparative Analysis of Enforcement of Financial Crime Legislation Against Corporations in the USA and the UK
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 82-3, June 2018
    • 1 June 2018
    ...the collapse of several large corporations including Enron and WorldCom,24 the 11. See generally R v P&O European Ferries (Dover) Ltd [1991] 93 Cr App R 72, 83.12. T. Edwards, House of Commons Library Briefing Paper—Corporate Economic Crime: bribery and corruption, Number 22 March 2017, at ......
  • Corporate Manslaughter: A Radical Reform?
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 71-2, April 2007
    • 1 April 2007
    ...the fact thathe had been warned of such failings by former employees of the company.23 See, e.g., R v P & O Ferries (Dover) Ltd (1990) 93 Cr App R 72 (involving the sinkingof the Herald of Free Enterprise) where the case was withdrawn from the jurybecause of a lack of evidence to substantia......
  • CORPORATE MANSLAUGHTER REVIEWED
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance No. 1-3, January 1993
    • 1 January 1993
    ...LAW & PRACTICE • VOLUME ONE NUMBER THREE - REVILLE -an employee who caused the death of six people through dangerous driving. 4 (1991) 93 Cr App R 72. 5 Professor J. C. Smith argues that while the ruling is not binding on other judges, 'it must have strong persuasive authority'[1991] Crim L......
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