Fitness to be Tried in UK Law
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Lauri Love v The Government of the United States of America
... ... for the acts alleged against him, but contended that he should be tried and, if convicted, sentenced in the United Kingdom. The ... One passage deals with the question of fitness to plead. This is what he said about fitness to stand trial: ... ...
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R v Burles
... ... 4 That being so, the question arose as to whether the fitness to plead should be tried forthwith or as it envisaged in Section 4 of the ... ...
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R v M ; R v H ; R v Kerr (Fitness to Plead)
... ... his mental state at the time of committing it, is or may at the time of his trial be in such a mental state as to render him unfit to be tried. The evolving legislative response to these problems (conveniently labelled insanity and unfitness to plead) was briefly described in R v Antoine ... ...
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R v Antoine
... ... or each of the counts on which the accused was to be or was being tried, that he did the act or made the omission charged against him as the ... of the accused, they may postpone consideration of the question of fitness to be tried until any time up to the opening of the case for the defence ... ...
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R v Antoine
... ... It was then contended on his behalf that he was unfit to be tried because of mental disability. Evidence was called before the jury on ... of the accused, they may postpone consideration of the question of fitness to be tried until any time up to the opening of the case for the defence ... ...
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Meadow v General Medical Council
... ... In November 1999 Mrs Clark was tried for the murder of her two sons. The Crown relied in part upon Professor ... The complaint was heard by the Fitness to Practise Panel ("FPP") of the General Medical Council ("GMC") , which ... ...
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R v Roberts
... ... in the Worcester Crown Court the applicant was found unfit to be tried under s.4 of the Criminal Procedure (Insanity) Act 1964. At a further ... of the accused, they may postpone consideration of the question of fitness to be tried until any time up to the opening of the case for the defence ... ...
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Locobail (U.K.) Ltd v Bayfield Properties Ltd
... ... seeking the disqualification of a judge, they will have their case tried by someone thought to be more likely to decide the case in their favour." ... which might, depending on the full facts, throw doubt on his fitness to sit, the judge should in our view enquire into the full facts, so far ... ...
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R v Webb
... ... correctly conceded that the question of unfitness to plead must be tried some time before the Defence opens; thereupon the learned Deputy Chairman ... having then been sworn and empanelled, the preliminary issue of fitness or unfitness to plead was tried. The medical witnesses - two in number ... ...
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Robert Marcantonio v R
... ... such that apart from this Act it would constitute a bar to his being tried. (2) If, having regard to the nature of the supposed disability, ... of the accused, they may postpone consideration of the question of fitness to be tried until any time up to the opening of the case for the defence ... ...
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