Shaw v DPP

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1961
CourtCourt of Appeal
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  • R v Bhagwan
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 23 July 1970
    ...as part of the law of England. But what your Lordships are invited to do in the present case is the very antithesis of what was done in Shaw's case. Before the passing of the Commonwealth Immigrants Act, 1962, so far from its being contrary to public policy for a British subject, such as Mr......
  • R v Ansell
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 17 July 1974
    ...or a hotel porter or a reader or purveyor of indecent magazines and still less to provide a brokerage to the introducer. 21 Lord Reid in Shaw's case went on to consider at pages 270-272 how far the section could apply to those whose activities were not what he called parasitic. The activiti......
  • Shaw v Director of Public Prosecutions
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 4 May 1961
  • R v Gibson ; R v Sylveire
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 12 April 1991
    ...... That much was clear from Knuller, per Lord Morris (at p468), and Lord Reid in Shaw v DPPELR ((1962) AC 220, 281). There was no suggestion in the present case that anyone was likely to be corrupted by the exhibiting of the earrings. It seemed to their Lordships that both types of offence were both factually and morally distinct. It was clear from section 1(1) that the ......
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