R v Tait
Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
Judge | LORD JUSTICE MUSTILL |
Judgment Date | 26 April 1989 |
Neutral Citation | [1989] EWCA Crim J0426-5 |
Judgment citation (vLex) | [1989] EWCA Crim J0426-6 |
Docket Number | No. 4166/C1/88 |
Court | Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) |
Date | 26 April 1989 |
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Van Heerden and Another v Joubert NO and Others
...Amendment, but the majority of the B Court (at 156-8) was not persuaded that the word 'person' also included the unborn. In R v Tait [1990] 1 QB 290 (CA) the Court of Appeal held that a threat to a pregnant woman to kill her foetus was not a threat to kill a 'person' under the Offences agai......
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Van Heerden and Another v Joubert NO and Others
...Amendment, but the majority of the F Court (at 156-8) was not persuaded that the word 'person' also included the unborn. In R v Tait [1990] 1 QB 290 (CA) the Court of Appeal held that a threat to a pregnant woman to kill her foetus was not a threat to kill a 'person' under the Offences agai......
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Van Heerden and Another v Joubert NO and Others
...Amendment, but the majority of the B Court (at 156-8) was not persuaded that the word 'person' also included the unborn. In R v Tait [1990] 1 QB 290 (CA) the Court of Appeal held that a threat to a pregnant woman to kill her foetus was not a threat to kill a 'person' under the Offences agai......
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Feticide: Creating a Statutory Crime in South African law
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