R v G [2003] is an English criminal law ruling on reckless damage. For which various offences it held that the prosecution must show a defendant subjectively appreciated a particular risk existing or going to exist to the health or property of another, and the damaging consequence, but carried on in the circumstances known to him unreasonably (to this latter stage of thought an objective test continues to apply) taking the risk. It abolished the "objective recklessness" test set out in R v Caldwell.
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| - R v G [2003] is an English criminal law ruling on reckless damage. For which various offences it held that the prosecution must show a defendant subjectively appreciated a particular risk existing or going to exist to the health or property of another, and the damaging consequence, but carried on in the circumstances known to him unreasonably (to this latter stage of thought an objective test continues to apply) taking the risk. It abolished the "objective recklessness" test set out in R v Caldwell. (en)
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| - [2003] UKHL 50, [2004] 1 AC 1034 [2003] 4 All ER 765, [2004] 1 AC 1034, [2004] 1 Cr App Rep 21, 167 JP 621, 167 JPN 955, [2003] 3 WLR 1060, [2004] AC 1034, [2004] 1 Cr App R 21 (en)
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| - Regina v G and another (en)
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| - Lord Bingham of Cornhill; Lord Browne-Wilkinson; Lord Steyn; Lord Hutton; Lord Rodger of Earlsferry (en)
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- damage (en)
- Recklessness (en)
- objective test only as to considering the adverse consequences (en)
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| - R v G [2003] is an English criminal law ruling on reckless damage. For which various offences it held that the prosecution must show a defendant subjectively appreciated a particular risk existing or going to exist to the health or property of another, and the damaging consequence, but carried on in the circumstances known to him unreasonably (to this latter stage of thought an objective test continues to apply) taking the risk. It abolished the "objective recklessness" test set out in R v Caldwell. (en)
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| - Conviction upheld in the Court of Appeal Dyson LJ, Silber J and His Honour Judge Beaumont QC: [2002] EWCA Crim 1992 (en)
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