R v Ruth Ellis

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeLord Justice Kay,LORD JUSTICE KAY
Judgment Date08 December 2003
Neutral Citation[2003] EWCA Crim 3930,[2003] EWCA Crim 3556
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Docket NumberNo: 200201066/D5,Case No: 200201065 S4
Date08 December 2003

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4 cases
  • R v Gore
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 4 July 2007
    ...of their grandchild. The Commission might have been well advised to heed the wise words of Kay LJ when he said in the appeal of Ruth Ellis [2003] EWCA Crim 3556: “We have to question whether this exercise of considering an appeal so long after the event when Mrs Ellis herself had consciousl......
  • R (Westlake) v Criminal Cases Review Commission
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 17 November 2004
    ...the first sentence of the citation. 25 I have carefully considered what was said by the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) in Ellis [2003] EWCA Crim. 3556 at paragraph 90: "We would wish to make one further observation. We have to question whether this exercise of considering an appeal so ......
  • C.A HCC 227/2010 Guneththi Dharmaratne Perera Vs Hon. Attorney General - Hon Achala Wengappuli, J.
    • Sri Lanka
    • Court of Appeal (Sri Lanka)
    • 19 October 2020
    ...Courts, under the consideration of "slow burn provocation" which the prosecution so succinctly sought to define in Ruth Ellis v R [2003] EWCA Crim 3556 " .. .provocation over a prolonged period that has a gradually mounting effect on the person, who is subjected to it, so that a point is re......
  • Guneththi Dharmaratne Perera Vs Hon. Attorney General - Hon Achala Wengappuli, J.
    • Sri Lanka
    • Court of Appeal (Sri Lanka)
    • 19 October 2020
    ...Courts, under the consideration of "slow burn provocation" which the prosecution so succinctly sought to define in Ruth Ellis v R [2003] EWCA Crim 3556 " .. .provocation over a prolonged period that has a gradually mounting effect on the person, who is subjected to it, so that a point is re......
2 books & journal articles
  • Provocation: Speculative Defence Not to Be Left to the Jury
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 68-2, March 2004
    • 1 March 2004
    ...not also be suff‌iciently close to amount to a theft.Catherine ElliottProvocation: Law at Time of Trial RelevantR v Ellis (Ruth) [2003] EWCA Crim 3556, [2003] All ER (D) 134 (Dec)This was the case, notorious in all senses of the word, of Ruth Ellis, thelast woman to be hanged in the UK. In ......
  • A Muted Voice from the Past
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Social & Legal Studies No. 21-4, December 2012
    • 1 December 2012
    ...subjectivity play in reproducingpatriarchal relations’ (Smart, 1995: p. 78). 6. Effective from 4 October 2010. Cases cited Ellis v R (2003) EWCA Crim 3556.DPP2/2430/23271.HO291/235.HO291/236. References Ballinger A (1996) The guilt of the innocent and the innocence of the guilty: The cases ......