R v Smith
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1960 |
| Court | Court of Appeal |
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Field v R
...official concerned. 58 Predominantly, however, the approach of Lord Cranworth and Willes J has been adopted. Amongst the relevant cases is R v Smith, 59 where the appellant's defence to a charge of corruptly offering a bribe was that he had done so simply for the purpose of exposing corrupt......
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Testing Fidelity to Legal Values: Official Involvement and Criminal Justice
...but not, for example, in conspiracy cases, where there is nothingother than a passing reference in clause 50(3) to the common law.100 [1960] 2 QB 423.September 2000] Testing Fidelity to Legal ValuesßThe Modern Law Review Limited 2000 dishonesty. The defendant’s alleged motive was therefore ......
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THE MEANING OF ‘CORRUPTLY’
...feelings and evil intentions’ (seeLim Kheng Kooi v R; [1957] MLJ 199) ‘purposely doing an act which the law forbids’ (see R v Smith) [1960] 1 All ER 256). ‘Corrupt’ is a question of intention. If the circumstances show that what a person has done or has omitted to do was moved by an evil in......