R v Williams (Hywell Rhys)
Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
Date | 1953 |
Court | Court of Criminal Appeal |
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33 cases
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R. v. Neve (L.C.), (1999) 237 A.R. 201 (CA)
...N.R. 349; 99 B.C.A.C. 81; 162 W.A.C. 81, refd to. [para. 27]. R. v. Lafrance, [1975] 2 S.C.R. 201, refd to. [para. 28]. R. v. Williams, [1953] 1 Q.B. 660 (C.A.), refd to. [para. 28]. R. v. Kerr, [1965] 4 C.C.C. 37 (Man. C.A.), refd to. [para. 31]. R. v. Smith (E.) (1989), 74 Nfld. & P.E......
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Ivey v Genting Casinos (UK) Ltd (trading as Crockfords)
...it largely replaced, for the judge did define whether a state of mind, once ascertained as a matter of fact, was or was not fraudulent: R v Williams [1953] 1 QB 660. Accordingly, dishonesty cannot be regarded as a concept which would bring to the assessment of behaviour a clarity or certain......
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Attorney General's Reference (No. 1 of 1981)
...of the law dealing with fraud practised upon other persons. 17 The wider meaning of the word is well illustrated by the decision in R v. Williams (1953) 1 All E. R. 1068. Lord Goddard, Chief Justice, at page 1069, having set out the definition of larceny found in section 1(1) of the Larceny......
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2 books & journal articles
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Mistaking theft: Dishonesty ‘turns over a new leaf’
...the question of felony open.28. E East, Pleas of the Crown, vol 2 (Straham, London 1803) 659.29. Ibid., 661.30. (1869) 11 Cox CC 549.31. [1953] 1 QB 660, 666.7Wang broader concept of dishonesty was adopted in the Theft Act 1968 to make that clear.32Turner was of theview that the word ‘fraud......
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Recent Judicial Decisions
...again bothin theftandfraud cases. The point had been settled prior to theTheft Act by a far from satisfactory precedent, R. v. Williams[1953] 1 Q.B. 660. The point was bound to recur. In R. v. Feely[1971] 2 W.L.R. 201 a manager had "borrowed" the shop's moneywith the stated intention of pay......