R v Tolson

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtCourt for Crown Cases Reserved
Year1889
Date1889

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    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
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    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 23 February 2000
    ...to the effect that an honest mistake by a defendant does not avail him unless the mistake was made on reasonable grounds. Thus, in The Queen v. Tolson (1889) 23 Q.B.D. 168, 181, Cave J. observed: 'At common law an honest and reasonable belief in the existence of circumstances, which, if tru......
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    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • Invalid date
  • Sweet v Parsley
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 23 January 1969
    ...element than to infer that Parliament intended to create an absolute offence. A variant of this would be to accept the view of Cave J. in Reg. v. Tolson 23 Q.B.D. 165 at page 181. This appears to have been done in Australia where authority appears to support what Sir Owen Dixon said in Prou......
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10 books & journal articles
  • Table of Cases
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Archive Criminal Law. Seventh Edition
    • 4 August 2018
    ...21 CR (4th) 215 ............... 129 R v Timminco Ltd (2001), 42 CR (5th) 279, 54 OR (3d) 21 (CA) ......................250 R v Tolson (1889), 23 QBD 168, 58 LJMC 97, 60 LT 899 (CCR) ....................... 184 Table of Cases 603 R v Tramble (1983), 33 CR (3d) 264 (Ont Co Ct) .....................
  • Table of cases
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Criminal Law. Eighth edition
    • 1 September 2022
    ...42 R v Timminco Ltd (2001), 42 CR (5th) 279, 54 OR (3d) 21 (CA) ...................... 262 R v Tolson (1889), 23 QBD 168, 58 LJMC 97, 60 LT 899 (CCR) ................ 192, 241 R v Toth (1991), 63 CCC (3d) 273, 1991 CanLII 184 (BCCA) ........................... 410 R v Tramble (1983), 33 CR ......
  • The Fault Element, or Mens Rea
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Criminal Law. Eighth edition
    • 1 September 2022
    ...may actually be interpreted as requiring fault. In some cases, courts will require the proof of fault in relation to 1 R v Tolson (1889), 23 QBD 168 at 185 (CCR) [ Tolson ]. 2 But see Criminal Code , RSC 1985, c C-46, ss 433 and 436 [ Code ], for clear deinitions of separate ofences of inte......
  • The Fault Element, or Mens Rea
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Archive Criminal Law. Seventh Edition
    • 4 August 2018
    ...may actually be interpreted as requiring fault. In some cases, courts will require the proof of fault in relation to all 1 R v Tolson (1889), 23 QBD 168 at 185 (CCR) [ Tolson ]. 2 But see Criminal Code , RSC 1985, c C-46, ss 433 and 436 [ Code ], for clear definitions of separate offences o......
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