Drug Offences in UK Law

  • Re Norris
    • House of Lords
    • 28 June 2001
    ... ... Norris (Respondent) and In the Matter of the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 and In the Matter of an ... ...
  • Commissioners of Customs and Excise v A
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 July 2002
    ... ... A in proceedings under the Drug Trafficking Act 1994 (DTA 1994), following his conviction and imprisonment for drug trafficking offences ... 2 In a reserved judgment handed down on ... ...
  • R v Looseley
    • House of Lords
    • 25 October 2001
    ... ... a case where an undercover policeman repeatedly badgers a vulnerable drug addict for a supply of drugs in return for excessive and ever increasing ... is that the state should not instigate the commission of criminal offences in order to punish them. But what counts for this purpose as instigation? ... ...
  • R v Lambert
    • House of Lords
    • 05 July 2001
    ... ... April 1999 the appellant was convicted of possession of a controlled drug, cocaine, with intent to supply, contrary to section 5 of the Misuse of ... L.R. 306 , at 309) found 219 examples, among 540 offences triable in the Crown Court, of legal burdens or presumptions operating ... ...
  • R v Petherick (Rosie Lee)
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 03 October 2012
    ... ... sentence of four years and nine months which was imposed for the offences of causing death by dangerous driving and driving with excess alcohol in a ... Assault Guideline, taking effect on 13 June 2011, and again in the Drug Offences Guideline, taking effect on 29 February 2012, among other ... ...
  • R v Waya (Terry)
    • Supreme Court
    • 14 November 2012
    ... ... to punish convicted offenders, to deter the commission of further offences and to reduce the profits available to fund further criminal enterprises ... The first statute, the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 ("the 1986 Act") provided for confiscation ... ...
  • Hurnam v State of Mauritius
    • Privy Council
    • 15 December 2005
    ... ... advantage of the inevitable delay before trial to commit further offences. In this appeal the Board considers the principles which should guide the ... offence like murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder or drug trafficking will be released on bail, the more so if, as is the case with ... ...
  • Polish Judicial Authorities v Adam Celinski and Others
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 06 May 2015
    ... ... not to impose our views about the seriousness of the offence or offences under consideration or the level of sentences or the arrangements for ... v) He had sorted out his previous drug dependency and found work. vi) He had a caution for theft from a ... ...
  • R v Steven William Montila and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 25 November 2004
    ... ... Their aim is to avoid prosecution for the offences that they committed and confiscation of the proceeds of their offences ... Each pair comprises one count of converting the proceeds of drug trafficking, contrary to section 49(2)(b) of the Drug Trafficking Act ... ...
  • R v Raymond George May
    • House of Lords
    • 14 May 2008
    ... ... of Drugs Act 1971 did not provide a means of stripping professional drug-traffickers of the whole of their ill-gotten gains or the total profits of ... The series began with the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986, and there followed (among the more important statutes) the ... ...
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