Criminal Practice in UK Law

  • R v Turnbull
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 09 July 1976
    ... ... 845/B/76 IN THE COURT OF APPEAL CRIMINAL DIVISION Royal Courts of Justice (From the Shorthand Notes ... these guidelines for trial Judges, which involve only changes of practice, not law, we have tried to follow the recommendations set out in the ... ...
  • R v Galbraith
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 19 May 1981
    ... ... No. 5541/B/79 IN THE COURT OF APPEAL CRIMINAL DIVISION Royal Courts of Justice (From the Shorthand Notes ... It seems that thereafter a practice grew up of inviting the Judge at the close of the prosecution case to say ... ...
  • Broome v Cassell & Company Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 23 February 1972
    ... ... at again by the House of Lords, either generally or under the Practice Declaration of 1966 [1966] 1 W.L.R. 1234 , they were perfectly at ... entered into and also the especial need for certainty as to the criminal law. This announcement is not intended to affect the use of ... ...
  • Connelly v DPP
    • House of Lords
    • 21 April 1964
    ... ... Director of Public Prosecutions (on Appeal from the Court of Criminal Appeal), that the Committee had heard Counsel, as well on Tuesday the ... 4 The difficulty in this case arises from the practice, based on R. v. Jones [1918] 1 K.B. 416 , that a second charge is ... ...
  • Ghaidan v Godin-Mendoza
    • House of Lords
    • 21 June 2004
    ... ... Discrimination is an insidious practice. Discriminatory law undermines the rule of law because it is the ... Of course all law, civil and criminal, has to draw distinctions. One type of conduct, or one factual situation, ... ...
  • Woolmington v DPP
    • House of Lords
    • 05 April 1935
    ... ... Schedule thereto, namely, an Order of His Majesty's Court of Criminal Appeal, of the 18th of March 1935, might be reviewed before His Majesty ... well-known treatise of Archbold, "Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice," which is the companion of lawyers who practise in the criminal courts ... ...
  • R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Simms
    • House of Lords
    • 08 July 1999
    ... ... in aid of an attempt to gain access to the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division.) The policy of the Home Secretary is that such interviews would ... Prison Service, said: "If it were to become common practice to allow journalists access to individual prisoners it would not be ... ...
  • R v Horseferry Road Magistrates Court ex parte Bennett (A.P.)
    • House of Lords
    • 24 June 1993
    ... ... 1 The appellant is a New Zealand citizen who is wanted for criminal offences which it is alleged he committed in connection with the purchase ... If a practice developed in which the police or prosecuting authorities of this country ... ...
  • Gouriet v Union of Post Office Workers
    • House of Lords
    • 26 July 1977
    ... ... The introduction of the Attorney-General was a matter of practice and procedure, the subject of judicial invention: what the courts have ... -General to invoke the assistance of civil courts in aid of the criminal law. It is an exceptional power confined, in practice, to cases where an ... ...
  • R v DPP ex parte Kebeline
    • House of Lords
    • 28 October 1999
    ... ... In the present case the DPP gave his consent to the criminal proceedings under the Act of 1989 ... 8 The trial ... 9 The ... But the fact that it has not been the practice to bring a consent to a prosecution under judicial review means that no ... ...
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