R v Windle
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1952 |
| Court | Court of Appeal |
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16 cases
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R. v. Chaulk and Morrissette, (1990) 119 N.R. 161 (SCC)
...[1977] 1 S.C.R. 673; 8 N.R. 585, overruled [para. 81]. R. v. Codere (1916), 12 Cr. App. R. 21, refd to. [para. 83]. R. v. Windle, [1952] 2 Q.B. 826; [1952] 1 All E.R. 1, refd to. [para. 83]. Stapleton v. The Queen (1952), 86 C.L.R. 358, refd to. [para. 85]. R. v. Bernard, [1988] 2 S.C.R. 83......
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R. v. Chaulk and Morrissette, (1990) 69 Man.R.(2d) 161 (SCC)
...[1977] 1 S.C.R. 673; 8 N.R. 585, overruled [para. 81]. R. v. Codere (1916), 12 Cr. App. R. 21, refd to. [para. 83]. R. v. Windle, [1952] 2 Q.B. 826; [1952] 1 All E.R. 1, refd to. [para. 83]. Stapleton v. The Queen (1952), 86 C.L.R. 358, refd to. [para. 85]. R. v. Bernard, [1988] 2 S.C.R. 83......
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Williams v Williams
...of the blameworthiness or culpability of the conduct in question. That is if one treats the word 'wrong' as meaning what Windle's case [1952] 2 Q.B. 826, said it does not mean. If one treats the word 'wrong' as what the Court of Criminal Appeal said it does mean, then much of the texture o......
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Aline Loake v Crown Prosecution Service
...as laying down the law of England as to insanity at the time of the alleged offence: see R v Holt 15 Cr App R 10; R v True 16 Cr App R 164; R v Windle [1952] 2 QB 826; R v Sullivan [1984] AC 156. In R v Sullivan, supra, at pp 170–171, Lord Diplock said that although the questions put to the......
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7 books & journal articles
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The Insanity Defence
...ER 219.5. R v Kemp [1957] 1 QB 399.6. Bratty v A-G for Northern Ireland [1963] AC 386.7R v Codere [1916] 12 Cr App R 21.8. R v Windle [1952] 2 QB 826.9. R v Johnson [2007] EWCA Crim 1978.10. Codere, above n. 7.Hogg The dangers of relying on a concept of mental dysfunction developed in 1843 ......
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The Law of Insanity and Diminished Responsibility in Criminal Law versus the Meaning of Insanity within the Medical Profession: an inevitable conflict?
...rise to is a weak method of “compromise”. 8 Norrie, Crime, Reason and History , (2nd Ed) (London: Butterworths, 2001) p 180 9 Windle [1952] 2 QB 826, CCA. Also adopted in Canada, see Schartz (1979) 29 CCC (2d) 1 and in America, see State v Boan 235 Kan. 800, 810, 686 P.2d 169, 168 (1984). I......
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Unfitness to Plead and the Vulnerable Defendant: An Examination of the Law Commission's Proposals for a New Capacity Test
...such a defect of reason from disease of the mind, as not toknow the nature and quality of the act, or that it was wrong.3R v Windle [1952] 2 QB 826; R v Johnson [2007] EWCA Crim 1978.194 The Journal of Criminal Law (2011) 75 JCL While such an individual is acting on the basis of an entirely......
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Insanely Old Fashioned?
...would apply. Given the English law’s requirement that understanding of wrongfulnessis limited solely to legal wrong, not moral (RvWindle [1952] 2QB 826) in Rogers’ case a plea ofinsanity would in all likelihood have failed.In England and Wales, DR may offer an alternative (partial) defence ......
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