R v Whitaker

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1914
CourtCourt of Appeal
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53 cases
  • Tony Pua Kiam Wee v Government of Malaysia and another appeal
    • Malaysia
    • Federal Court (Malaysia)
    • Invalid date
  • Datuk Haji Harun bin Haji Idris v PP
    • Malaysia
    • Federal Court (Malaysia)
    • Invalid date
  • R v Cosford and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 16 Abril 2013
    ...may enforce the performance of those duties by indictment, and individuals peculiarly injured, by action." 26 The matter next arose in R v. Whitaker [1914] 3 KB 1283 which concerned the activities of the colonel of a regiment who accepted from a firm of caterers sums of money to induce him ......
  • Donegal International Ltd v Zambia
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 15 Febrero 2007
    ...act contrary to his duty; where this is done corruptly it is an indictable misdemeanour at common law which abhors corruption and fraud”: R v Whitaker, [1914] 3 KB 1283 at p.1297. There is no evidence that the law of Zambia is different and I presume it to be the 123 Donegal do not have a ......
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1 firm's commentaries
  • Bribery And Corruption Reform: Proposed Modern UK Laws Target Companies And LLPS
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    • 12 Marzo 2009
    ...5.Press release, US Department of Justice (9 January 2009): www.usdoj.gov. 6.Russell on Crime (12 ed., 1964), 364. 7.R. v. Whitaker [1914] 3 KB 1283, 8.Russell on Crime (12th ed 1964), supra. 9.See R. v. Gurney (1867) 10 Cox CC 550. 10.Cooper v. Slade [1858] 6 HL 746; approved in R. v. Godd......
5 books & journal articles
  • Illegality
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Law of Contracts. Third Edition Vitiating Factors
    • 4 Agosto 2020
    ...vires the municipality and unenforceable. 117 Finney v Township of McKellar (1982), 133 DLR (3d) 351 (Ont CA). 118 Regina v Whitaker , [1914] 3 KB 1283. 119 Re Mirams , [1891] 1 QB 594; Angers v Gauthier , [1924] SCR 479. 120 Parkinson v College of Ambulance , [1925] 2 KB 1. See also Egerto......
  • Public Trusts, Public Fiduciaries
    • United Kingdom
    • Federal Law Review No. 38-3, September 2010
    • 1 Septiembre 2010
    ...(1987–1988) 35 University of California at Los Angeles Law Review 815. 10 R v Bembridge (1783) 22 State Tr 1, 155–6. 11 R v Whitaker [1914] 3 KB 1283, 1296. 2010 Public Trusts, Public Fiduciaries 337 ____________________________________________________________________________________ (both ......
  • Neglect of Duty and Breach of Trust. Ancient offences in the modern battle against impunity in the public service
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Money Laundering Control No. 13-4, October 2010
    • 12 Octubre 2010
    ...(1986) 39 WIR 129, Gaciatta v. Republic [1966] EA 277.77. Booth v. Arnold [1895] 1 QB 571.78. Pruss [1965] 55 WWR 83.79. Whittaker [1914] 3 KB 1283.80. Note 87.81. [2004] EWCA Crim 3067.82. At para. 45.83. [1982] QB 1053.84. (1892) 23 OR 201, sub nom Arnold (Digest, 2008) para. 9679. Decide......
  • Misconduct in a Public Office—Should it Still Be Prosecuted?
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 76-2, April 2012
    • 1 Abril 2012
    ...accessed 24 February 2012. See alsoD. Lusty, ‘Misconduct in Public Off‌ice’ (2009) 173 JPN 437.18 R v Whitaker [1914] 3 KB 1283 at 1296.19 Except for bribing a foreign public off‌icial this public/private sector division can beput aside when prosecuting for active bribery or passive bribery......
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