R v Spratt
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 10 May 1990 |
| Date | 10 May 1990 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) |
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6 cases
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R v Savage ; DPP v Parmenter
...intent in section 47, but had unfortunately reached opposite conclusions. The case of Savage was one of those cases and the other is Reg. v. Spratt [1990] 1 W.L.R. 27 Reg. v. Spratt 28 The facts and the decision of the Court of Appeal: 29A young girl was struck twice whilst playing in the ......
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R v Savage ; DPP v Parmenter
...... . . Regina. and. Parmenter. Before Lord Justice Mustill, Mr Justice Waterhouse and Mr Justice Swinton Thomas Court of Appeal Crime - assault - intent Conflict over intent in assault cases Court of Appeal decisions in R v Spratt (The Times May 14) and R v Savage(The Times May 18), on the degree of intent necessary to establish an offence of assault occasioning actual bodily harm under section 47 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861, were in conflict. Their Lordships preferred the conclusion expressed in ......
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Hksar v Oh Eugene Jae-hoon
...in Caldwell as to its general applicability, that test has been over the years restricted in its application. In R. v. Spratt [1990] 1 WLR 1073, the Court of Appeal confirmed that so far as the offence of assault is concerned (and indeed for all offences against the person), the test of rec......
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2 books & journal articles
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Offences against the Person: Into the 21st Century
...this is not uncommon in Englishcriminal law, as may be demonstrated by murder: the actus reus includes36 [1990]1 All ER 331, DC.37 [1990] 1 WLR 1073, CA.38 [1992] 1 AC 699, HL.39 See A. Ashworth, quondam Law Commissioner on the Criminal Law team,Principles of Criminal Law, 6th edn (Oxford U......
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Divisional Court
...been established it remained only to show acausal connection between the assault or battery and the actual bodilyharm. In R v Spratt [1991] 2 All ER 210, however, the Court of Appealappeared to say that the prosecution must establish that the accused hadforeseen that his conduct gave rise t......