case law -robbery

Question 1

R V Skivington

Answer 1

Larceny (or theft) is an ingredient of robbery,

and if an honest belief that a man has a claim of right is a defence to larcency,

then it negatives one of the ingreidants in the offence of robbery,

without proof of which the full offence is not made out.

Question 2

R v Lapier

Answer 2

Robbery is complete the instant the property is taken,even if possession by the thief is only momentary.

Question 3

Warner V Metropolitan Police Commissioner

Answer 3

The term possession must be given a sensible and reasonable meaning in its context, Ideally a possessor of a thing has:
Complete physical control over it
Knowledge of its existence, its situation and qualities.

Question 4

R v Maihi

Answer 4

Its is implicit in ‘accompany’ that there must be a nexus(connection or link) between the act of stealing…. and a threat of violence. Both must be present. However the term does not require that the act of stealing and the threat of violence be contemporaneous….

Question 5

Peneha V Police

Answer 5

It is sufficient that the actions of the defendant forcibly interfere with personal freedom or amount to forcible powerful or violent action or motion producing a very marked or powerful effect tending to cause bodily injury or discomfort

Question 6

R v Joyce

Answer 6

Being together require two or more people acting (physically present together)in the commission of an offence

Question 7

R v Galey

Answer 7

Being together in the context of S235(b) involves ‘ two or more persons having the common intention to use their combined force, either in any event or as circumstances might require, directly in the perpetration of the crime.