Fitness to Plead in UK Law

  • R v M ; R v H ; R v Kerr (Fitness to Plead)
    • House of Lords
    • 30 Enero 2003
  • Lauri Love v The Government of the United States of America
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 05 Febrero 2018
    ... ... risk that, if remanded in custody, Mr Love would become unfit to plead. The risk depended on whether his depression worsened, if he became ... One passage deals with the question of fitness to plead. This is what he said about fitness to stand trial: ... ...
  • R v Margaret Moran – Fitness to plead
    • Crown Court
    • 27 Abril 2012
  • R v Erskine; R v Williams
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 14 Julio 2009
    ... ... He told the court that the appellant had been determined to plead not guilty on the basis that when he participated in the attack on the ... of reporting cases indiscriminately without reference to their fitness or usefulness as precedents, merely because, having been reported by ... ...
  • Brown v The State
    • Privy Council
    • 07 Febrero 2012
    ... ... psychologist, on the issue of whether the appellant had been fit to plead. The effect of these reports, Mr Knowles claimed, was to raise serious ... it is necessary to set this out in full: "The issue of fitness to plead and stand trial at the material time is relatively ... ...
  • R v Janner
    • Crown Court
    • 07 Diciembre 2015
    ... ... 7 December 2015 ... R v Janner ... The defendant’s fitness to plead ... The judgment of Mr Justice Openshaw ... On the 14 August ... ...
  • R v Burles
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 16 Diciembre 1969
    ... ... 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 ... ...
  • Robert Marcantonio v R
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 24 Febrero 2016
    ... ... submission that the appellant/applicant in each case was unfit to plead, within section 4, Criminal Procedure (Insanity) Act 1964, at the time of ... 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 ... ...
  • R v Cox (Anthony Russell)
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 01 Marzo 2012
    ... ... years old, there was an indication that he had been found unfit to plead. However, the subsequent history of his previous convictions did not st, and does not suggest to us, either that his fitness to plead was raised as an issue, or, if it was, that he was found to be ... ...
  • B (A Child)
    • Supreme Court
    • 12 Junio 2013
    ... ... invited a consultant psychiatrist, Dr Taylor, to assess her fitness to plead. His conclusion was that she was fit to do so; but, following ... ...
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