R v Tait

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeLORD JUSTICE MUSTILL
Judgment Date26 April 1989
Neutral Citation[1989] EWCA Crim J0426-5
Judgment citation (vLex)[1989] EWCA Crim J0426-6
Docket NumberNo. 4166/C1/88
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Date26 April 1989

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7 cases
  • B v Islington Health Authority
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 25 September 1990
    ...1049; [1988] 2 All E.R. 238, H.L.(E.) Leal v. C.C. Pitts Sand and Gravel Inc. (1967) 413 S.W.2d 825 Reg. v. Tait [1990] 1 Q.B. 290; [1989] 3 W.L.R. 891; [1989] 3 All E.R. 682, Scott v. McPheeters (1939) 92 P.2d 678 Williams v. Marion Rapid Transit Inc. (1949) 87 N.E.2d 334 Yuen Kun Yeu v. A......
  • Van Heerden and Another v Joubert NO and Others
    • South Africa
    • Invalid date
    ...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......
  • Van Heerden and Another v Joubert NO and Others
    • South Africa
    • Invalid date
    ...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......
  • Van Heerden and Another v Joubert NO and Others
    • South Africa
    • Appellate Division
    • 19 August 1994
    ...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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1 books & journal articles
  • Feticide: Creating a Statutory Crime in South African law
    • South Africa
    • Juta Stellenbosch Law Review No. , August 2019
    • 16 August 2019
    ...part i n the ethical and social debates concer ning the unborn. However, the court clearly ad mitted that the re was no doubt that 44 [1989] 3 All ER 68245 S 16 of the Offences agai nst the Person Act st ates:“A person who without law ful excuse makes to ano ther a threat, inte nding that t......

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