R v Summers
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judge | LORD JUSTICE EDMUND DAVIES |
| Judgment Date | 18 May 1972 |
| Neutral Citation | [1972] EWCA Crim J0518-2 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1972] EWCA Crim J0518-1 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) |
| Docket Number | No. 5533/A/71 No. 5855/A/71 |
| Date | 18 May 1972 |
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Attorney General's Reference (No. 3 of 1983)
...is no reason why his attacker, whether acting alone or jointly with another attacker, should not be held guilty of the affray." 12 R. v. Summers (1972) 56 Cr. App. R. 604 : This case covered much of the same ground as Scarrow, but in addition is authority for the proposition that one of t......
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Queen v Terence Malachy Davison, James McCormick, Joseph Gerard Fitzpatrick
...recollection. Affray [14] Affray is a common law misdemeanour, whose elements were encapsulated by Edmund Davies LJ in Reg v Summers (1972) Crim. L.R. 635: “The question therefore arises as to what exactly is meant by an ‘affray’. We respectfully approve of and adopt a passage which appears......
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Taylor v DPP (on Appeal from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division))
...of Appeal pointed out, this submission cannot live consistently with the decisions in Scarrow (1968) 52 Cr.App.R. 591 or Summers (1972) 56 Cr.App.R. 604 from which it appears fairly clearly, if they are to be supported, that a person is not to be acquitted of affray simply because his vic......
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Queen v Terence Malachy Davison, James McCormick and Joseph Gerard Fitzpatrick
...my earlier ruling. [189] Affray is a common law misdemeanour, whose elements were encapsulated by Edmund Davies LJ in Reg v Summers (1972) Crim. L.R. 635 (“Summers”): 37 “The question therefore arises as to what exactly is meant by an ‘affray’. We respectfully approve of and adopt a passage......
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