R v Vickers
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1957 |
| Court | Court of Appeal |
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36 cases
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R v Cunningham
...the Homicide Act did not abolish the doctrine, in my view rather unfortunately, known as "implied malice": see section 1(c) of the Act, R. v. Vickers [1957] 2 Q.B. 664 at 671, 672 and Hyam ( supra). I call the label unfortunate because the "malice" in an intention to cause grievous bodily ......
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DPP v Smith
... ... The expression “grievous bodily harm” should bear its ordinary and natural meaning of “really serious” harm (post, p. 560 ) ... Section 1 (1) of the Homicide Act, 1957 , has not abolished malice constituted by a proved intention to inflict grievous bodily harm ... Reg. v. Vickers [ 1957 ] 2 Q.B. 664 ; [ 1957 ] 3 W.L.R. 326 ; [ 1957 ] 2 All E.R. 741 , C.C.A. approved ... Decision of the Court of Criminal Appeal (sub nom. Reg. v. Smith) [ 1960 ] 3 W.L.R. 92 ; [ 1960 ] 2 All E.R. 451 reversed ... APPEAL from the Court of Criminal Appeal ... ...
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R v Daryll Rowe
...of causing really serious bodily harm. She conceded at trial that infection with HIV remained serious harm in the sense outlined in the R v Vickers [1957] 3 WLR 326: “Grievous bodily harm need not be permanent, but it must be serious, and it is serious or grievous if it is such as seriousl......
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Hyam v DPP
...of malice aforethought by judicial decision. 17The abolition of the doctrine of constructive malice laid the way open for the decision in Vickers [1957] 2 Q.B. 664 re-argued before a particularly strong full Court of Criminal Appeal. Technically this decision only rejected the ingenious ar......
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ENLARGED PANELS IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF SINGAPORE
...App R 141; Simpson v Peat [1952] 2 QB 24; Berkeley v Papadoyannis [1954] 2 QB 149; Morelle Ltd v Wakeling [1955] 2 QB 379; R v Vickers [1957] 2 QB 664; R v Hopkins (1957) 41 Cr App R 231; R v Matheson [1958] 1 WLR 474; R v Evans [1959] 1 WLR 26; R v Green [1959] 2 QB 127; R v McVitie [1960]......
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Murderous intent—The attitude of a murderer?
...by it [then that is murder]’.18. Cunliffe v Goodman (1950) 2 KB 237 CA at 253 (Asquith LJ) [Cunliffe v Goodman].19. R v Vickers [1957] 2 QB 664 CCA.20. See Hyam (n 11) at 59 (Lord Hailsham).21. See Stephen (n 13) at 119.22. See Woollin (n 1) at 390.23. R v Matthews and Alleyne [2003] EWCA C......
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MURDER
...be an evil intent, that is, a criminal intent, although it is not necessary that there should be an intent to kill. See R. v. Vickers (1957) 2 All E.R. 741 at 744." - Per Ariwoola, J.S.C., in Afosi v. State Suit No. S.C. 81/2012; (2013) 13 N.W.L.R. (Pt. 1371) 329 at (4) "Murder is the takin......
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Homicide: the mental element
...murder. The consequences became clear with the decision of the Court of Criminal Appeal in R. v. Vickers7where Goddard L.C.J. defined 7[1957] 2 Q.B. 664. 70 Judicial Studies Institute Journal murder as killing committed “with the intention either to kill or to do some grievous bodily harm.”......