Can you give me some English Criminal Law cases that have happend?
If you want some cases that are not criminal matters, how about Prince Albert v Strange 1849. This case is very important on two counts. Firstly, there is no “right to privacy” in English law, but there is perhaps some moderate right under this case using a writ for “breach of confidence”. Prince Albert (Queen Victoria’s husband) entrusted the defendant with some private family photographs, which he then tried to publish. The Prince won. The case is also peculiar because of who the plaintiff was. Monarchs are constitutionally unable to sue, or to be sued, and cannot be prosecuted, as all the courts sit in the name of the monarch (notice in the criminal cases they are cited in the form “R v Smith”, the “R” being “regina”, Latin for queen. If the monarch was male it would still be R for Rex. I wonder how much royal interference there was in Prince Albert’s case? Our very own Elizabeth II has personally intervened in a criminal case recently, in R v Burrell. Paul Burrell, the former butle
