R v Reed

R v Reed (Nicholas) [1982] Crim. L.R. 819 is an English criminal law case, dealing with suicide and criminal conspiracy. The court ruled that the event that the defendant conspired about did not have to take place for an offence to have been committed. ^[1]

Facts

The defendant was arranging suicide pacts, but no one actually committed suicide.^{[ citation needed ]}

Judgment

The court decided that if anyone had committed suicide, he would have been charged with, among other things, conspiring to aid and abet a suicide, so he should be charged now with the conspiracy.^{[ citation needed ]}

See also

• English criminal law

References

1. Elliott, Catherine; Quinn, Frances (2014). "10: Inchoate Offences". Criminal law (10 ed.). Harlow, England Munich: Pearson Education Limited. p. 278. ISBN   9781292015491. Nor is it an attempt to conspire (one exception to this rule is aiding and abetting suicide, as charged in R v. Reed [1982] as this is a full offence in its own right, rather than an inchoate offence....