Plea Bargaining in UK Law

  • R v Goodyear (Karl)
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 20 April 2005
    ... ... unremarkable appeal against sentence by Karl Goodyear following his plea of guilty to an offence of corruption on 19th April 2004 at the Crown ... There is to be no bargaining with or by the judge. These principles are derived from Turner itself ... ...
  • National Westminster Bank Plc v Morgan
    • House of Lords
    • 07 March 1985
    ... ... Morgan's plea that she was induced to execute the charge by the exercise of undue ... Lord Denning preferred to base his judgment on inequality of bargaining power. Because this difference of approach may have led to some confusion, ... ...
  • Attorney-General v Blake (pet. all.)
    • House of Lords
    • 27 July 2000
    ... ... in this type of case is often analysed as damages for loss of a bargaining opportunity or, which comes to the same, the price payable for the ... He was later found out and in 1961 he was, on his own plea, convicted of 5 offences under the 1911 Act and sentenced to 42 years' ... ...
  • R v Turner
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    ... ... Lord Parker C.J., Widgery L.J. and Bean J ... Crime - Plea - Guilty - Not guilty plea entered - Counsel advising change of plea ... counsel and judge - Presence of defendant's solicitor - “Plea bargaining” - Whether improper ... The defendant pleaded not guilty at his trial ... ...
  • OBG Ltd and another v Allan and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 02 May 2007
    ... ... because it allows for the possibility of a performer bargaining for greater rights than he would have under the statute ... 126 ... The action came before the court on a plea of demurrer. The question was whether the counts disclosed a cause of ... ...
  • Crofter Hand Woven Harris Tweed Company v Veitch
    • House of Lords
    • 15 December 1941
    ... ... would benefit their Union members if conditions of collective bargaining could be established in the Island between employers and employed. To this ... 48 Any evidence bearing on the fourth plea was negligible, and the Appellant made no case on it before this House, ... ...
  • R v Preston (Stephen) ; R v Preston (Zena) ; R v Clarke ; R v Austen ; R v Salter
    • House of Lords
    • 04 November 1993
    ... ... on an asserted claim to immunity to disclosure? (v) Whether, where a plea of guilty is founded or is consequent upon a material irregularity during ... the judge in his private room.” These were cases on “plea-bargaining,” but the risks can be as great in other contexts, as witness the ... ...
  • McKinnon v United States of America
    • House of Lords
    • 30 July 2008
    ... ... (iii) Plea-bargaining discussions between November 2002 and April 2003 during which ... ...
  • McKinnon v United States of America
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 03 April 2007
    ... ... by reference to circumstances in which Mr McKinnon has declined a plea bargain and, as a result, has lost benefits which would have flowed from ... '/confidentiality terms, and thus we did not refer to the plea bargaining. At the hearing at Bow Street, the US produced [an] affidavit and referred ... ...
  • Suisse Atlantique Société d'Armement Maritime S.A. v N.v Rotterdamsche Kolen Centrale (Silvretta.)
    • House of Lords
    • 31 March 1966
    ... ... Freedom to contract must surely imply some choice or room for bargaining ... 71 At the other extreme is the case where parties are bargaining on ... ...
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