R v Shivpuri
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1984 |
| Year | 1984 |
| Court | House of Lords |
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- Harta Empat Sdn Bhd; Koperasi Rakyat Bhd
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R v Tulloch
...is still an offence under the 1981 Act even though it would not have been a crime at common law. He cited the decision of this court in R. v. Shivpuri (1985) 1 All E.R. 143, where the appellant was arrested by customs officials while in possession of a suitcase which he believed contained p......
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Police Service for Northern Ireland v Richard Shaw MacRitchie
...well settled that an attempt to commit an offence that cannot in fact be perpetrated is nevertheless a criminal attempt – see R v Shivpuri [1987] AC 1 where it was held that on the true construction of section 1 of the Criminal Attempts Act 1981 the actus reus of the statutory offence of at......
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Pearson v R
...A.L.J.R. 270; 160 Aust. L.R. 531, followed. (4) R. v. Preddy, [1996] A.C. 815; [1996] 3 All E.R. 481, distinguished. (5) R. v. Shivpuri, [1987] A.C. 1; [1986] 2 All E.R. 334, applied. Legislation construed: Interpretation Law (1995 Revision) (Laws of the Cayman Islands, 1963, cap. 70, revis......
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Table of cases
...2019 BCCA 296 ............................................................................. 125 CRIMINAL LAW 636 R v Shivpuri, [1986] 2 All ER 334, [1986] 2 WLR 988 (HL) ............................. 160 R v Showman, [1988] 2 SCR 893, 45 CCC (3d) 289, 67 CR (3d) 61 ................... 48 R ......
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Table of Cases
...319, rev’g (1990), 105 AR 122, 55 CCC (3d) 313 (CA) ............................................................ 459 R v Shivpuri, [1986] 2 All ER 334, [1986] 2 WLR 988 (HL) ............................. 154 R v Showman, [1988] 2 SCR 893, 45 CCC (3d) 289, 67 CR (3d) 61 ................... 4......
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The Doctrine of Incapability and the Emperor's New Clothes: A Protected Defendant or Non-Existent Offences?
...Williams’ argument was expressly approved of in the speech of Lord Bridge of Harwich when R v Shivpuri reached the House of Lords: [1987] AC 1 at 35 27 August 198136 Confirmed in R v Taaffe [1983] 2 All ER 625. Note that in R v Brown (1889) 24 QBD 357, Lord Coleridge CJ seems to suggest tha......
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Dishonest Appropriation after Gomez and Hinks
...in the recent decision of Briggs,71 to putsome limit on the ambit of the offence of theft.70 Anderton vRyan [1985] AC 560, HL; R vShivpuri [1987] AC 1, HL.71 [2004] Crim LR 495.The Journal of Criminal...
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