R v Taylor (Vincent)
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1972 |
| Court | House of Lords |
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10 cases
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R v Gnango
...p 625 that the essence of the offence was that two or more fought together to the terror of the Queen's subjects. In R v Taylor (Vincent) [1973] AC 964 the House of Lords, disapproving the dictum of Lord Goddard in Sharp and Johnson, held that a single defendant could be guilty of affray i......
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I v DPP. ; M v DPP. ; H v DPP
... ... 11 This view is supported by the authorities on the common law offence of affray. Whilst as Taylor LJ observed in Atkin v Director of Public Prosecutions (1989) 89 Cr App R 199 , 204, a court is not assisted in construing words in a section ... ...
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R v Carey, Coyle and Foster
... ... He referred to the common law definition of affray and the re-affirmation by the House of Lords in Taylor (Vincent) [1973] AC 964 that affray involves a degree of violence sufficient to terrify a person of reasonably firm character. Mr Harrison did not ... ...
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R v McIlwaine (Shannon) and (McManus) Shannon
...The judgment points out that the essence of the offence is that it imports “terror and disturbance”. [48] In the case of Taylor v DPP [1973] 2 All ER 1108 at 1112, Lord Hailsham stated: “… The extent to which the ‘display of force … without actual violence’ constitutes the offence of affray......
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