R V R [1992] 1 AC 599 HOUSE OF LORDS, UNITED KINGDOM: LANDMARK CASE ANALYSIS

R V R [1992] 1 AC 599 HOUSE OF LORDS, UNITED KINGDOM: LANDMARK CASE ANALYSIS Diya Deb, 2nd year (BA.LLB Hons) Student at TECHNO INDIA UNIVERSITY, (India) Download Manuscript doi.org/10.70183/lijdlr.2026.v04.38 The decision of the House of Lords in R v R [1992] 1 AC 599 stands as a transformative moment in English criminal law. For The decision of the House of Lords in R v R [1992] 1 AC 599 stands as a transformative moment in English criminal law. For over two centuries, the common law had accepted the proposition, attributed to Sir Matthew Hale in 1736, that a husband could not be guilty of raping his wife, on the fiction that marriage entailed irrevocable consent to sexual intercourse. This case analysis examines how that doctrine was ultimately dismantled by the House of Lords in 1991.