R v Sinclair (James)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1998
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
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3 cases
  • R v Willoughby (Keith Calverley)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 6 Diciembre 2004
    ...which this Court interpreted that speech in R v Khan & Khan [1998] Crim LR 83 (transcript 18th March 1998) followed in R v Sinclair 148 New Law Journal 1353 (transcript 21st August 1998). In R v Singh [1999] Crim LR 582 (transcript 19th February 1999), where the court apparently approved th......
  • David Sellu v The Crown
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 15 Noviembre 2016
    ...arising out of an omission to act, where there has been evidence of a decreasing chance of survival as time passed. In R v Sinclair (1998) 148 NLJ 1353 giving the judgment of this court, Rose LJ said:“The judge … had properly and fairly directed the jury that, in relation to causation they ......
  • R v Gemma Evans
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 2 Abril 2009
    ...389, R v Wacker [2003] 1CAR 329, R v Kennedy (No 2) [2008] 1 AC 169, as well as R v Khan and Khan, unreported, 18 March 1998 and R v Sinclair, Johnson and Smith [1998] EWCA Crim 2590. It was further contended that the practice by which juries were invited to decide whether a duty of care is......
3 books & journal articles
  • Liability for Manslaughter by Omission: Don't Let the Baby Drown!
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 74-2, April 2010
    • 1 Abril 2010
    ...[2004] EWCA Crim2375, [2005] 1 Cr App R 21.21 [1993] AC 789.22 Ibid. at 893.23 See, e.g., Rv Sinclair [1998] EWCA Crim 2590, (1998) 148 NLJ 1353.24 [1998] EWCA Crim 2590, (1998) 148 NLJ 1353.25 Ibid. at [18].26 J. Herring and E. Palser, ‘The Duty of Care in Gross Negligence Manslaughter’[20......
  • Omissions Liability for Homicide Offences: Reconciling R v Kennedy with R v Evans
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 74-4, August 2010
    • 1 Agosto 2010
    ...for his or her sibling, see Rv Smith (1826) 172 ER 203.25 Rv Evans [2009] 1 WLR 1999 at [28], citing Rv Sinclair, Johnson and Smith (1998)148 NLJ 1353.26 [1996] 17 OTC 237.The Journal of Criminal under the current law, because her daughter is emancipated and hasherself created the dangerous......
  • Prosecuting the Drug Dealer When a Drug User Dies: R v Kennedy (No 2)
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 69-6, November 2006
    • 1 Noviembre 2006
    ...in C. Carnwath and I. Smith, HeroinCentury (London: Routledge, 2002). Se e RvRu¡ell (2003) 2 Cr App R (S) 330 and RvSinclair(1998) 148 NLJ1353.25 Working Party of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Royal College of Physicians, Drugs,Dilemmasand Choices, (London: Gaskell,20 00) 233.C......

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