Nature of Offence in UK Law
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Connelly v DPP
... ... persistently refused to permit a retrial in respect of the same offence after a verdict of guilty has been quashed on any ground by the Court of ... "Also it seems a general rule, that a bar in action of an inferior nature will not bar another of a superior. Yet it seems, that an acquittal in an ... ...
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Jagprit Randhawa and Others v The Queen
... ... by a jury of a conspiracy to cheat the public revenue, the nature of that conspiracy being what is commonly referred to as a MTIC carousel ... other three applicants had ever previously been convicted of any offence ... 4 We do not think it necessary to go ... ...
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HH v Deputy Prosecutor of the Italian Republic, Genoa
... ... However, he also rejected the submission that the gravity of the offence could never be relevant. Usually it would not be. "If, however, the ... be attached to it in the particular case does vary according to the nature and seriousness of the crime or crimes involved ... ...
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Gouriet v Union of Post Office Workers
... ... solicits or endeavours to procure any other person to commit an offence punishable on indictment under this Act, he shall be guilty of a ... , through writs, of quo warranto or analogous writs, claims of a nature which in modern times came to be made by prerogative writs, or cases ... ...
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Marcel and Others v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis and Others
... ... or controlled by a person who is under arrest for an arrestable offence if he has reasonable grounds for suspecting that there is on the premises ... "…the Court must see, from the circumstances of the case and the nature of the evidence which the witness is called to give, that there is ... ...
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Warner v Metropolitan Police Commissioner; R v Warner
... ... Gibb [1966] 3 W.L.R. 84 holding that this was an absolute offence for which mens rea was not necessary ... 2 I understand that this is ... distinction depends on the date of the statute: it depends on the nature of the offence. Kennedy L.J. said later: "I think that the ... ...
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Brown v Stott (Procurator Fiscal, Dunfermline)
... ... make under section 172(2)(a) of the 1988 Act at her trial for the offence charged under section 5 of that Act. On this issue the Solicitor General ... 390-391) ... 15 4. There is nothing exceptional, either in the nature of the road traffic offence which the respondent had allegedly committed, ... ...
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Secretary of State for the Home Department v Alusine Kamara
... ... This was a serious offence, which means that Mr Kamara qualifies as a "foreign criminal" for the ... be other relevant factors such as social or cultural ties of a nature which would provide him with the basis for establishing a private life and ... ...
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R v Kilbourne
... ... to hereafter as "the second group" Count five related to an offence alleged to have been committed on 3rd October, 1971. The remaining two ... 24 However, it is open to a judge to discuss with the jury the nature of the danger to be apprehended in convicting without corroboration and ... ...
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Sharma v Brown-Antoine and Others
... ... , did not disclose prima facie evidence of the commission of an offence. The statement was given or sent to the Prime Minister within days of its ... But arguability cannot be judged without reference to the nature and gravity of the issue to be argued. It is a test which is flexible in ... ...
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