Possession of Drugs in UK Law

  • Warner v Metropolitan Police Commissioner; R v Warner
    • House of Lords
    • 02 Mayo 1968
    ... ... 1967 on a charge that on 18th November 1966 he had in his possession a substance specified in the Schedule to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) ... ...
  • R v Lambert
    • House of Lords
    • 05 Julio 2001
    ... ... 1 On 9 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 Drugs Act 1971 and was sentenced to seven years imprisonment. He relied on ... ...
  • Teeluck and another v State of Trinidad and Tobago
    • Privy Council
    • 23 Marzo 2005
    ... ... that he was arrested on a previous occasion and charged with possession of drugs. He pleaded guilty to the offence and was fined the sum of ... ...
  • Ong Ah Chuan v Public Prosecutor; Koh Chai Cheng v Public Prosecutor
    • Privy Council
    • 15 Octubre 1980
    Fundamental rules of natural justice in the field of criminal law. Controlled drug. Offence of trafficking. Mandatory sentence of death
    ... ... offences of trafficking in heroin contrary to s 3 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1973. As the amount of heroin involved exceeded 15g in each case ... There the accused was charged with being in possession of 55.48g of diamorphine for the purpose of trafficking in a controlled ... ...
  • R v Avis and Others
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 16 Diciembre 1997
    ... ... 3 The unlawful possession and use of firearms is generally recognised as a grave source of danger to ... between competing criminal gangs, often related to the supply of drugs, the use and possession of firearms provoke an escalating spiral of ... ...
  • Sweet v Parsley
    • House of Lords
    • 23 Enero 1969
    ... ... of smoking cannabis contrary to section 5( b ) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1965. She was fined £25 and ordered to pay £12 18s. 0 d. costs. It ... the word "possession" as in Warner's case. In saying that the section relating to possession ... ...
  • R v Hunt (Richard)
    • House of Lords
    • 04 Diciembre 1986
    ... ... 2 By the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, morphine was classified as a controlled drug. By section 5: ... not be lawful for a person to have a controlled drug in his possession. (2) Subject to section 28 of this Act and subsection (4) below, it is an ... ...
  • R v Raymond George May
    • House of Lords
    • 14 Mayo 2008
    ... ... destruction conferred on the court by section 27 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 did not provide a means of stripping professional ... A criminal caught in possession of criminally-acquired assets will, it is true, suffer their seizure by ... ...
  • Gibbs, Commissioner of Police v Attorney-General et Al
    • Privy Council
    • 29 Enero 1998
    ... ... 16M of the Misuse of Drugs Law (Second Revision) ... The fourth warrant (in respect of the safety ... concerned with the storing of any controlled drugs where the possession of such drug contravenes the Misuse of Drugs Law? A. No, I have ... ...
  • Attorney General's Reference (No 27/2013); R v Burinskas; R v Phillips
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 04 Marzo 2014
    ... ... 2006 while serving that sentence the offender was convicted of possession of drugs and sentenced to six years and six months' imprisonment to run ... ...
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