R v Sharp
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1957 |
| Year | 1957 |
| Court | Court of Criminal Appeal |
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16 cases
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R v Taylor (Vincent)
...must mean that two or more fight unlawfully. He is supported in that contention by the decision of the Court of Criminal Appeal in R. v. Sharp and Johnson, 1957 1 Queen's Bench page 552. It will be remembered that at that time there was the requirement of a public place. No problem arises b......
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R v Gnango
...origin many centuries ago. By the middle of the twentieth century it had been lost from sight, for as Lord Goddard CJ remarked at p 559 of R v Sharp; R v Johnson, [1957] 1 QB 552, the first case in which the offence resurfaced, there seemed to be no reported case which dealt with it. That ......
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I v DPP. ; M v DPP. ; H v DPP
...justice that it is permissible in this case to take into account the common law decisions on what constitutes a threat of violence. 12 In R v Sharp [1957] 1 QB 552, 559 Lord Goddard CJ in considering the offence of affray cited the institutional writers and said: "The author who devotes mos......
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2 firm's commentaries
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Complete guide to assault charges, penalties and defences in New South Wales
...occur in private or public places whether or not a third person is even likely to have been present at the scene. The case of R v Sharp [1957] 1 QB 552 at 559, Lord Goddard said, "if two lads indulge in a fight with fists, no one would dignify that as an affray, whereas if they used broken ......
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Complete guide to assault charges, penalties and defences in New South Wales
...occur in private or public places whether or not a third person is even likely to have been present at the scene. The case of R v Sharp [1957] 1 QB 552 at 559, Lord Goddard said, "if two lads indulge in a fight with fists, no one would dignify that as an affray, whereas if they used broken ......
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Recent Judicial Decisions
...see Taylor v. DPP [1973] AC964,987; R. v. Dixon [1993] Crim. LR 379, R. v. Robinson [1993] Crim.LR 581 and R. v. Sharp; R. v. Johnson [1957] 1 QB 552.The carrying in public of primed petrol bombs, by people in gangsout for no good was clearly capable of constituting athreatofviolence,regard......