Director of Public Prosecutions v Crawford

JurisdictionIreland
CourtCourt of Appeal (Ireland)
JudgeMr. Justice Edwards
Judgment Date31 March 2023
Neutral Citation[2023] IECA 87
Docket NumberRecord No: 204/2020

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3 cases
  • Director of Public Prosecutions v Crawford
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 14 October 2024
    ...appellant and the deceased were in the public house and their interactions there is laid out in the Court of Appeal judgment (Edwards J.) [2023] IECA 87 at paras 4–33 The Issue at Trial on the Dwyer Test for Self-Defence 8 . Prior to the speeches of counsel to the jury, the defence raised a......
  • Taylor v Director of Public Prosecutions
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 29 June 2026
    ...The Supreme Court ( per Donnelly J.) approved the formulation of the test as articulated by Edwards J. in the Court of Appeal in Crawford [2023] IECA 87 (at paragraph 49): “The test therefore is not whether the accused reasonably believed that the force used by him or her was necessary in t......
  • The Director of Public Prosecutions v Richard Walsh
    • Ireland
    • Court of Appeal (Ireland)
    • 9 October 2024
    ...self-defence, in light of certain observations made obiter dictum by this Court in the relatively recent case of People (DPP) v. Crawford [2023] IECA 87. Unlike this case, the Crawford case was not concerned with an offence committed in circumstances that possibly engaged the provisions of ......