R v Williams (Hywell Rhys)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1953
CourtCourt of Criminal Appeal
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33 cases
  • R. v. Neve (L.C.), (1999) 237 A.R. 201 (CA)
    • Canada
    • Court of Appeal (Alberta)
    • 29 Junio 1999
    ...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......
  • Scott v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 20 Noviembre 1974
  • Ivey v Genting Casinos (UK) Ltd (trading as Crockfords)
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • 25 Octubre 2017
    ...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......
  • Attorney General's Reference (No. 1 of 1981)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 11 Marzo 1982
    ...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
  • Mistaking theft: Dishonesty ‘turns over a new leaf’
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 86-1, February 2022
    • 1 Febrero 2022
    ...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......
  • Recent Judicial Decisions
    • United Kingdom
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles No. 47-2, April 1974
    • 1 Abril 1974
    ...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......

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