Re Giles, deceased
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1971 |
| Court | Chancery Division |
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13 cases
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Dunbar v Plant
...to the facts in this case. 105Despite these dicta, the full rigour of the rule against forfeiture was applied by Pennycuick V-C. in In re Giles Decd. [1972] Ch. 544. In that case a woman had killed her husband, but been convicted of manslaughter rather than murder on grounds of diminished ......
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J v S-T (Formerly J) (Transsexual: Ancillary Relief)
...that the Act of 1975 does not provide any right or benefit, but merely confers upon the court a discretion. In the course reading from in re Giles, (Decd) [1972] Ch. 544, Mr Caswell quoted from the speech of Lord Atkin in Beresford v Royal Insurance Company Ltd [1938] A.C. 586, 599 referre......
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Re Murphy (Deceased)
...and degree of moral guilt of a person who has been justly convicted and sent to prison". 6 This led Sir John Pennycuick V-C, in Re Giles [1972] Ch 544, to reject any attempt to limit the common law rule to cases involving real moral culpability. The case was one in which a wife had killed h......
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Burns v Secretary of State for Social Services
...denied benefit as the result of the victim's death. He recognised, too, accepting the opinion of Pennycuick V.-C. in the case of Re Giles [1972] Ch. 544, at p. 552, that "neither the deserving of punishment nor carrying a degree of moral culpability has ever been a necessary ingredient of t......
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