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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.
R v Mohan, 1994 CanLII 80, [1994] 2 SCR 9 is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision on the use of expert witnesses in trial testimony. Background.
The Nation of Islam is an African-American religious group which was founded in the 1930s, came to prominence in the 1960s with members such as Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X, and came to prominence in the United Kingdom in the 1990s during the public inquiry that followed the murder of Stephen Lawrence.
R v Shivpuri [1986] UKHL 2, reversing Anderton v Ryan [1985] AC 560 attempting the impossible; R v Anderson [1986] AC 27; R v Betts and Ridley (1930) 22 Cr App R, accessory to crime need not be present; R v Clarkson (1971) 55 Cr. App. Rep. 445 for aiding and abetting, need evidence of actually encouraging a crime; R v Gnango [2011] UKSC 59 ...
Whether the abnormality substantially impaired the defendant's mental responsibility for the killing is a question of degree for the jury. In R v Lloyd the Court of Appeal held that the lack of control must simply be ‘more than trivial’. [4] Premenstrual tension (PMT) has been accepted as a mitigating factor in several high-profile cases.
R v R [1991] UKHL 12 is a House of Lords judgement in which R was convicted of attempting to rape his wife but appealed his conviction on the grounds of a marital rape exemption whereby R claimed a husband cannot be convicted of raping his wife as his wife had given consent to sexual intercourse through the contract of marriage which she could not withdraw.
The facts of this incident came out owing to a habeas corpus suit filed in the Kerala High Court. [36] [37] Many cases where teens were arrested and imprisoned have come to light, one such example is of Dilip Sharma who aged 16 was arrested and imprisoned for over 11 months. He was released based on Patna High Court's judgment on 29 July 1976. [38]
R v Bailey is a 1983 decision of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales considering criminal responsibility as to non-insane automatism.The broad questions addressed were whether a hampered state of mind, which the accused may have a legal and moral duty to lessen or avoid, gave him a legal excuse for his actions; and whether as to any incapacity there was strong countering evidence ...