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Chief Justice: Antonio Lamer ... R v Mohan, 1994 CanLII 80, [1994] ... Relevance is a question of law and so is determined by the judge. Where it approaches the ...
Intent is defined in English law by the ruling in R v Mohan [1976] QB 1 as "the decision to bring about a prohibited consequence" (malum prohibitum). [1] [2] [3] A range of words represents shades of intent in criminal laws around the world. The mental element, or mens rea, of murder, for example, was historically called malice aforethought.
The principles of fundamental justice have been identified by courts on a case-by-case basis. In order to qualify, there must be a sufficient societal consensus that the proposed legal principle is fundamental to the fair operation of the legal system, and it must be able to be identified with sufficient precision to yield a manageable standard ...
In R v Matthews and Alleyne, [4] the Court of Appeal concluded that the Woollin test was an evidential rather than substantial rule of law: judges ought to instruct jurors that they may interpret what they would see as certain knowledge on the defendant's part of the virtually certain consequence of death as evidence of intention, but Woollin ...
R v Sussex Justices, ex parte McCarthy ([1924] 1 KB 256, [1923] All ER Rep 233) is a leading English case on the impartiality and recusal of judges.It is famous as a legal precedent in establishing the principle that the mere appearance of bias is sufficient to overturn a judicial decision.
R v Vaillancourt, [1987] 2 S.C.R. 636, is a landmark case from the Supreme Court of Canada on the constitutionality of the Criminal Code concept of "constructive murder". ". The Court raised the possibility that crimes with significant "stigma" attached, such as murder, require proof of the mens rea element of subjective foresight of death, but declined to decide on that b
The William R. Howell Stock Index From January 2008 to April 2009, if you bought shares in companies when William R. Howell joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -37.8 percent return on your investment, compared to a -41.7 percent return from the S&P 500.
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