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For the meaning of "assault" in this provision, see Logdon v. DPP [1976] Crim LR 121, DC. This offence was abolished and replaced by the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005. Assaulting a person designated under section 43 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005
DPP v Majewski [1976] UKHL 2 is a leading English criminal law case, establishing that voluntary intoxication such as by drugs or alcohol is no defence to crimes requiring only basic intent. The mens rea requirement is satisfied by the reckless behaviour of intoxicating oneself.
The case of Jaggard v Dickinson (1980) [14] held that even a drunken belief will support the defence even though this allows drunkenness to negate basic intent; and Lloyd v DPP (1992) [15] ruled that a motorist who damages a wheel clamp to free his car, having parked on another's property knowing of the risk of being clamped, does not have a ...
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) v Morgan [1975] UKHL 3 was a decision of the House of Lords which decided that an honest belief by a man that a woman with whom he was engaged with sexual intercourse was consenting was a defence to rape, irrespective of whether that belief was based on reasonable grounds.
The report mentions several "significant prosecutions" between 2010 and 2014, including 35 convictions which took place while Starmer was DPP: November 2010 - five men convicted in Rotherham ...
The definition of rape at common law was discussed in DPP v Morgan [1976] AC 182, [1975] 2 WLR 913, [1975] 2 All ER 347, 61 Cr App R 136, [1975] Crim LR 717, HL. A statutory definition of "rape" was provided by section 1 of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1976.
Ayerst (Inspector of Taxes) v C&K (Construction) Ltd [1976] AC 167; Town Investments v Department of the Environment [1978] AC 359; DPP v Stonehouse [1978] AC 55, 68; Erven Warnink BV v J Townend & Sons (Hull) Ltd [1979] AC 731; Gibson v Manchester City Council [1979] 1 WLR 294; Whitehouse v Lemon; Whitehouse v Gay News Ltd [1979] 2 WLR 281
Contract law, instantaneous communication, approving Entores v Miles Far East Co. Amin Rasheed Shipping Corp. v Kuwait Insurance Co. 1984 1 App Cas 50 Choice of law in contract, renvoi. Furniss v Dawson: 1984 A.C. 474 Spiliada Maritime Corp v Cansulex Ltd: 1987 A.C. 460 Forum non conveniens. Hotson v East Berkshire Health Authority: 1988 UKHL 1