Breach of the Peace in UK Law

  • R (Laporte) v Chief Constable of Gloucestershire Constabulary
    • House of Lords
    • 13 Diciembre 2006
    ... ... 3 The claimant is a peace protester who in early 2003 was very strongly opposed to the waging of war ... They are not to be arrested to prevent a breach of the peace at that particular time, if that is the only offence ... ...
  • R v Howell (Errol)
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 13 Abril 1981
    ... ... did not take his advice they would be arrested for committing a breach of the peace. So far as is known no violence had been used by anyone up to ... ...
  • Cozens v Brutus
    • House of Lords
    • 19 Junio 1972
    ... ... Lawn Tennis Club, Wimbledon, he used insulting behaviour whereby a breach of the peace was likely to be occasioned, contrary to section 5 of the ... ...
  • R (McCann) v Manchester Crown Court
    • House of Lords
    • 17 Octubre 2002
    ... ... Breach of such an order may give rise to criminal liability. That stage has, ... whereby in England and Wales a person may be bound over to keep the peace involve the determination of a criminal charge for the purposes of article ... ...
  • R v Chief Constable of Sussex, ex parte International Trader's Ferry Ltd (pet. all.)
    • House of Lords
    • 11 Noviembre 1998
    ... ... the Chief Inspector had "reason to believe that breaches of the peace will occur if you continue to the port… I have a power and a duty at ... I.T.F. also claimed damages for breach of Articles 5 and 34 of the EC Treaty ... 17 The Divisional ... ...
  • Mitchell and another v Glasgow City Council
    • House of Lords
    • 18 Febrero 2009
    ... ... towards the deceased which resulted in his being charged with a breach of the peace. The defenders warned him again that he might be evicted if ... ...
  • O'Hara v Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary
    • House of Lords
    • 12 Diciembre 1996
    ... ... done if the officer himself with reasonable cause suspects that a breach of the peace has occurred or is imminently likely to occur or an ... ...
  • Hubbard v Pitt
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 13 Mayo 1975
    ... ... 31 In the present case the police evidently thought there was no breach of this law. The presence of these half-a-dozen people on Saturday morning ... Of course, if there had been any fear of a breach of the peace, the police could have interfered: see Duncan v. Jones (1936) 1 K.B ... ...
  • R v Donovan
    • Court of Criminal Appeal
    ... ... to that which amounts to, or has a direct tendency to create, a breach of the peace; so as to bar a criminal prosecution.” But it is submitted ... ...
  • Leachinsky v Christie
    • House of Lords
    • 25 Marzo 1947
    ... ... "unlawful possession" (for up to that time he has not committed any breach of the Act) but rather a power to arrest and detain him if his name and ... 18 Take first the text books. Burn's Justice of the Peace is a work of acknowledged authority which has gone through more than ... ...
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