R v Thornton
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Year | 1992 |
| Date | 1992 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) |
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12 cases
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R v Ahluwalia
...R v CamplinELR ([1978] AC 705, R v IbramsUNK ((1981) 74 Cr App R 154), R v WhitfieldUNK (1975) 61 Cr App R 209) and R v ThorntonUNK ([1992] 1 All ER 306) and said that the judge's references to sudden and temporary loss of self-control in his direction to the jury were correct in law. It wa......
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R v Moncrieff
...not followed. (9) R. v. Tandy, [1989] 1 W.L.R. 350; [1989] 1 All E.R. 267; (1988), 87 Cr. App. R. 45, applied. (10) R. v. Thornton, [1992] 1 All E.R. 306; (1991), 96 Cr. App. R. 112, applied. Legislation construed: Penal Code (1995 Revision) (Law 12 of 1975, revised 1995), s.183(1): The rel......
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R v Thornton (No. 2)
...6 C & P 157 through the well known direction of Devlin J approved by this Court in Duffy [1949] 1 All ER 932 up to the present day (see Thornton 96 Cr App R 112 at pages 30In Ahluwalia 96 Cr App R 133 at pages 137–139, there was again a challenge to a summing-up which was in accordance w......
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14 books & journal articles
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Battered Women, Startled Householders and Psychological Self-Defence: Anglo-Australian Perspectives
...Responsibility:Domestic, Comparative and International Perspectives (Ashgate Publishing: Farnham,2011).22 See, e.g., R v Thornton [1992] 1 All ER 306 where the defendant stabbed herhusband after he threatened that he would kill her in her sleep. See also LawCommission, above n. 18 at para. ......
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Anger and Fear as Justifiable Preludes for Loss of Self-Control
...woman—killed the deceased the nextmorning. The defence was put to the jury who accepted the provocation. 15 [1992] 4 All ER 889.16 [1992] 1 All ER 306.17 R v Ahluwalia [1992] 4 All ER 889 at 896.Anger and Fear as Justifiable Preludes for Loss of that there was no sudden and temporary loss ......
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Mercy Killing
...likethe new loss of self-control plea.39Not only this, but the courts have already rejected opportunities to29. See Thornton (No. 1) [1992] 1 All ER 306, Thornton (No. 2) [1996] 2 All ER 1023, Ahluwalia, above n. 11, Rossiter [1994] 2All ER 752, Humphreys [1995] 4 All ER 1008.30. Mackay, ab......
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Some perspectives on provocation and domestic killing
...Two years earlier, in 1989, Kiranjit Ahluwalia was similarly sentenced to life for the murder of her husband. 23 By all accounts 22 [1992] 1 All E.R. 306. Lewes Crown Court, 6 and 7 December, 1989. However, in R. v. Ahluwalia [19921 4 All E.R. 889 the Court of Appeal quashed the conviction ......
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