Sherras v De Rutzen

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1895
Year1895
CourtDivisional Court

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  • Regulatory Offences and Reverse Burdens: The ‘Licensing Approach’
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 71-3, May 2007
    • 1 May 2007
    ...has the effect ofdistorting the law. For example, the Divisional Court’s analysis of the offence inSheldrake considered above. 44 [1895] 1 QB 918 at 922.45 A distinction repeated in later cases when strict liability and the presumption mens rea was considered, notably Sweet v Parsley [1970]......
  • Strict Criminal Liability: A Violation of the Convention?
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 70-6, December 2006
    • 1 December 2006
    ...vStorkwain Ltd [1986] 2 All ER 635, HL.17 R v Howells [1977] 3 All ER 417.18 Cundy v Le Cocq (1884) 13 QBD 207.19 Sherras vDe Rutzen [1895] 1 QB 918.20 R v Blake [1997] 1 All ER 963, CA.21 International Transport Roth GmbH and Others v Secretary of State for the HomeDepartment [2003] QB 728......
  • Rape in Victoria as a Crime of Absolute Liability: A Departure from Both Precedent and Progressivism
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 76-5, October 2012
    • 1 October 2012
    ...Court in He Kaw Teh v R(1985) 157CLR 523; see also Cameron v Holt (1980) 142 CLR 342 and the leading English caseof Sherras vde Rutzen (1895) 1 QB 918, 921 (Wright J).Rape in Victoria as a Crime of Absolute summary offences that, in the event of a conviction, impute only themost minor penal......
  • Divisional Court
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 68-1, January 2004
    • 1 January 2004
    ...a fault require-ment in a silent provision, even where an adjacent provision makesexpress provision for fault (see Sherras vDe Rutzen [1895] 1 QB 918), inthis context, courts are required to consider liability for s. 444(1) as analternative to s. 444(1A): they simply cannot have the same fa......
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