R v Woods
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judge | LORD JUSTICE GRIFFITHS |
| Judgment Date | 12 October 1981 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1981] EWCA Crim J1012-2 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) |
| Date | 12 October 1981 |
| Docket Number | No. 3485-A-80 |
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3 cases
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R v Heard (Lee)
...could only be committed by intentional touching; yet voluntary intoxication was not a defence, as it was also not to rape. The decisions of Woods (1982) 74 Cr App R 312 and R v C [1992] Crim LR 642 are relied upon. The new Act was not intended to change the law in this respect; on the contr......
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Stephen andrew Dowds v The Queen
...voluntary drunkenness without such additional condition was incapable of founding the plea of diminished responsibility. See, most recently, R v Wood [2008] EWCA Crim 1305; [2008] 2 Cr App R 34 at 507 – in particular paragraph [23]—and R v James Stewart [2009] EWCA Crim 593; [2009] 2 Cr A......
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R v Fotheringham
...entitled to take into account in deciding whether there were reasonable grounds for the defendant's belief that the woman consented – see R. v. Woods (1982) 74 Cr. App. R. 312. Likewise he had to face the law, which is that "self-induced intoxication is no defence to a crime in which reckle......