R v Williams (Owen Richard)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1922
Year1922
CourtCourt of Criminal Appeal

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18 cases
  • C.W v The Minister for Justice, Ireland and the Attorney General and the Director of Public Prosecutions
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 28 August 2023
    ...that fraud unravels everything, deceit as to the nature of a sexual action vitiates consent; R v Flattery [1877] 2 QBD 41; R v Williams [1923] 1 KB 340. Deceit as to the identity of the accused will also render consent invalid; R v Dee [1884] 15 Cox 5791 LR IR 31 But, how a principle of cr......
  • R v Jheeta (Harvinder Singh)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 11 July 2007
    ...performing a surgical operation which would break “nature's string” and provide a remedy for the fits to which she was subject. In R v Williams [1923] 1 KB 340 the conviction for rape was upheld where the defendant deceived a girl of 16 into having sexual intercourse with him to cure a prob......
  • R v Linekar
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 21 October 1994
    ...to sexual intercourse. In Flattery [1877] 2 Q.B.D. 410, she agreed to a surgical procedure which she hoped would cure her fits. In Williams [1923] 1 K.B. 340, she agreed to a physical manipulation which would provide her with extra air supply to improve her singing. 26 In our judgment, it i......
  • X City Council v MB, NB and MAB [FD]
    • United Kingdom
    • Family Division
    • 13 February 2006
    ...R v Flattery (1877) 2 QBD 410 (19-year old girl persuaded by defendant that sexual intercourse was a surgical operation) and R v Williams [1923] 1 KB 340 (16-year old girl persuaded by defendant that sexual intercourse was a procedure to improve her singing voice). 69. Now these were all ca......
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20 books & journal articles
  • Proving Consent in Sexual Cases: Legislative Change and Cultural Evolution
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 9-1, January 2005
    • 1 January 2005
    ...cols. 674–675.141 Viscount Bledisloe, HL Deb, 17 June 2003, cols. 676–677.142 Sexual Offences Act 2003, s. 76(2)(a). See R v Williams [1923] 1 KB 340; R v Case (1850) 4 CoxCC THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EVIDENCE & PROOF 21PROVING CONSENT IN SEXUAL CASESknown personally to the complainant.1......
  • Female Rape—An Ongoing Concern: Strategies for Improving Reporting and Conviction Levels
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 71-1, February 2007
    • 1 February 2007
    ...to reforming the lawon sexual offences, including rape. The Sexual Offences Act 1956 was43 [1995] Crim LR 163.44 [1999] Crim LR 62.45 [1923] 1 KB 340.46 (1887) 2 QB 410.47 [1995] QB 250, [1995] Crim LR 320.48 [2000] 2 Cr App R 328, [2000] Crim LR 686.49 [2004] EWCA Crim 1103, [2004] QB 1257......
  • Table of cases
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Law of Torts. Sixth Edition
    • 25 June 2020
    ...422 R v Mabior, 2012 SCC 47 .................................................................................... 306 R v Williams, [1923] 1 KB 340, 128 LT 128 (CCA) ........................................... 305 R(L) v British Columbia (1998), 25 CPC (4th) 186, [1998] BCJ No 2588 (SC), var......
  • The Concept of Consent under the Sexual Offences Act 2003
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 72-6, December 2008
    • 1 December 2008
    ...which henever intended to pay had not committed rape because the reality of the97 See, e.g., Rv Flattery (1877) 2 QBD 410; Rv Williams [1923] 1 KB 340.98 J. R. Spencer, ‘Three New Cases on Consent’ (2007) CLJ 490 at 491, referring to Rv Tabassum [2000] 2 Cr App R 328 and Rv Linekar [1995] 2......
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