R v Rowley

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Judgment Date04 July 1991
Date04 July 1991

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10 cases
  • Mohd Farid bin Mohd Sukis and Another; PP
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 1 January 2002
  • R v Simon Austin Hamilton
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 16 August 2007
    ...was in fact outraged; Taylor LJ, as he then was, had referred to the outrage to the member of the public in the passage we have cited from Rowley at paragraph 25.ii) above; public decency could not be outraged unless the nature of the act was seen by 36 However in our view the purpose of th......
  • Paul Charles Andrews v The Chief Constable of Suffolk Constabulary
    • United Kingdom
    • King's Bench Division
    • 12 December 2022
    ...more than merely preparatory to the commission of the offence, he is guilty of attempting to commit the offence.’ 12 Ms Morris relies upon R v Rowley [1991] 1 WLR 1020, CA and R v Geddes (1996) 160 JP 697, CA (to both of which the lower court had been referred) and upon R v MS [2021] EWCA C......
  • Rowe v R
    • New Zealand
    • Supreme Court
    • 21 June 2018
    ...law. 29 41 Similar concerns about the undue extension of the concept of an indecent act underlie the decision of the Court of Appeal in R v S. 30 The appellant in R v S appealed to the Court of Appeal against conviction on two charges relating to the 12 year old daughter of his partner. Rel......
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3 books & journal articles
  • Subject Index, Volume 77, 2004
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles No. 77-4, November 2004
    • 1 November 2004
    ...October 2004, CA (Crim) 334–339R v Pollock, September 2004, CA (Northern Ireland) 272–276R v Preddy (1996) AC 815 76, 77R v Rowley [1991] 1 WLR 1020 242R v Secretary of State, ex p. Northumbria Police Authority [1988] 2WLR 590 142R v Sed, May 2004, CA (Crim) 327–331R v Shayler (2001) 1 WLR ......
  • Tackling Grooming
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles No. 77-3, November 2004
    • 1 November 2004
    ...there would be suff‌icient proximity between the actand the result, rendering it almost certainly merely preparatory(see R v Rowley [1991] 1 WLR 1020 and R v Geddes [1996]Crim LR 895; for a fuller discussion of these issues seeGillespie, 2002: 413–15).In essence this led to the situation wh......
  • Recent Judicial Decisions
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles No. 74-1, March 2001
    • 1 March 2001
    ...above offence,even though the defendant's ultimate motive in meeting the boys was to commit acts ofgross indecency with them: RvRowley [1991] 4 All ER 649.The facts were, Rowley left notes in public places over a period of three weeksoffering money and presents to boys. The Crown alleged th......