R v Saunders

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1875
CourtCourt for Crown Cases Reserved
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9 cases
  • Douglas v DPP
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 7 April 2017
    ...penetrate the cover. Thus, the public touting for an outrageously indecent exhibition in private would not escape: see Reg. v. Saunders, 1 Q.B.D. 15."' 38 Thomas LJ. elaborated upon the two elements of the offence set out at para. 21 of his judgment quoted above. The first element related t......
  • R v Simon Austin Hamilton
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 16 August 2007
    ...exposure if he bathed naked so that he could be seen from a path where the public were likely to go. A similar broad view was taken in Saunders (1875) 1 QBD 15; the defendant was a travelling showman who invited persons into a tent on Epsom Downs for payment to see an exhibition that was in......
  • R v Greater London Council, ex parte Blackburn
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 14 April 1976
    ...exhibition took place. The Court for Crown Cases Reserved held that "those facts are abundant to prove a common law offence - see The Queen v. Saunders (1875) 1 Queen's Bench, p. 15. 18 This common law offence was clearly recognised by the House of Lords in Knuller's Case (1973) A. C. 435.......
  • Rowe v R
    • New Zealand
    • Supreme Court
    • 21 June 2018
    ...Crunden (1809) 2 Camp. 89), acts of sexual indecency in public ( Reg. v. Mayling [1963] 2 Q.B. 717), indecent words ( Reg. v. Saunders (1875) 1 Q.B.D. 15), disinterring a corpse ( Rex v. Lynn (1788) 2 Durn. & E. 733), selling a wife (cited in Rex v. Delaval (1763) 3 Burr. 1434, 1438), exhi......
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  • Sticks, Stones and Words: Emotional Harm and the English Criminal Law
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 74-6, December 2010
    • 1 December 2010
    ...(1809) 2 Camp 89 (nude bathing); R v Howell and Bentley (1864) 4 F & F160 (procuring girl for purposes of prostitution); R v Saunders (1875) 1 QBD 15(indecent words); R v May (1989) 91 Cr App R 157 (indecent behaviour with deskby schoolmaster in presence of boys); R v Lunderbech [1991] Crim......

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