Weapons and Firearms in UK Law

  • R v Avis and Others
  • R v Rehman; R v Wood
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 18 July 2005
    ... ... in respect of offences committed contrary to section 5 of the Firearms Act 1968 ("the Firearms Act"). The provisions were inserted into the ... 4 The weapons, with which we are concerned, are ones in relation to which Parliament by ... ...
  • R v Wilkinson and Others
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 06 October 2009
    ... ... Sentencing courts must address the fact that too many lethal weapons are too readily available: too many are carried: too many are used, always ... for a variety of offences taking account of the ambit of the Firearms Act 1968, as amended by the wide-ranging, then recent statutory provisions ... ...
  • Sean Alexander v The Public Prosecutor's Office, Marseille District Court of First Instance, France
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 15 June 2017
    ... ... , in the course of 2015 and until April 2016, the purchase of weapons, weapon components and ammunition in the south of France (counties of Var ... within category B to persons without a licence to possess firearms". Offences described and punishable under articles L.311–2, L.312\xE2" ... ...
  • R v Peter Ralphs
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 03 December 2009
    ... ... of a prohibited weapon, contrary to section 5(1)(a) of the Firearms Act 1968, namely a 9mm Browning calibre Ingram machine gun; (ii) ... Initially he said he never touched any of the weapons or the ammunition, but he later stated that these were weapons involving a ... ...
  • R v Simpson (Calvin)
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 28 October 1983
    ... ... of fact been conveniently defined in the Restriction of Offensive Weapons Act 1959 as "any knife which has a blade which opens automatically by hand ... to the person, includes bludgeons, clubs, bayonets, daggers, firearms other than those commonly used for gaming, coshes and knuckledisters. It ... ...
  • R v Poulton (Sarah Jane); R v Celaire (Mario Rolando)
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 24 October 2002
    ... ... authorities, that the sentence passed in relation to the offensive weapons offence was approximately double what it ought properly to have been. So ... to ask the sort of questions posed by this Court in relation to firearms in Avis [1998] 2 Cr App R(S) 178, that is to say, to consider the nature ... ...
  • R v Bentham
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 19 May 1972
  • Aron Stefan Chin-Charles v R
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 03 July 2019
    ... ... of Cullen (sentenced with 19 co-accused in a complex drugs and weapons conspiracy) the remarks extended over 76 pages ... 3 Statute ... his brother; Leon Cullen, were involved in two major drugs and firearms conspiracies as joint co-leaders of an organised crime group based in ... ...
  • Attorney General's Reference (No. 2 of 1989)
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 16 October 1989
    ... ... hold-up of a security or a Post Office van, should be 15 years if firearms were carried and no serious injury done. It follows therefore that the ... , in the sense of going into the banks carrying firearms or other weapons, had criminal records. Some had bad criminal records and others not so ... ...
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