Possession of Firearm in UK Law
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R v Avis and Others
... ... 3 The unlawful possession and use of firearms is generally recognised as a grave source of danger to ... is usually as much frightened and intimidated as if a genuine firearm had been used. Such victims are often isolated and vulnerable ... 5 ... ...
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Warner v Metropolitan Police Commissioner; R v Warner
... ... 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) ... The words were that "any person who carries … any firearm not being a firearm which he is duly licensed to carry … shall be guilty ... ...
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Hinds et Al v The Queen; and Director of Public Prosecutions v Jackson
... ... for certain specified offences relating to the unauthorised possession, acquisition or disposal of firearm or ammunition, the Gun Court should ... ...
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R v Rehman; R v Wood
... ... out a series of circumstances in which it is unlawful to be in possession of, or purchase, or acquire, or manufacture, or sell, or transfer a list ... one which is selected for falling within section 51A is (aba): any firearm which either has a barrel less than 30 centimetres in length or is less ... ...
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R v Jogee
... ... The possession of a gun would not be any evidence of this, for a gun is used in poaching ... assent to a criminal enterprise which involved the discharge of a firearm, should the occasion arise. This was an entirely orthodox approach. So too ... ...
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R v Keane
... ... He also pleaded guilty on a second indictment to possessing a firearm without a certificate. He was sentenced to consecutive sentences of three ... or sensitivity justifies non-disclosure of material in the possession of the Crown. Accordingly, the ex parte procedure should not be adopted, ... ...
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R v Rahman (Islamur) and Others
... ... Possession of the gun was not of itself conclusive, but it was evidence from which ... The plan in that case had been to discharge a firearm near the victim so as to frighten him, and in the event it had been fired ... ...
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R v Bentham (Peter)
... ... give the impression that he has a gun, be held to have in his possession an imitation firearm within the meaning of section 17(2) of the Firearms ... ...
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R v Kelt
... ... 18 of the Firearms Act 1968, of the offence of having with him a firearm with intent to commit an indictable offence. He submits through Mr ... be wrong, that "having with him" is to be distinguished from "possession" and that the learned Judge in summing up the case to the jury failed to ... ...
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R v Michael Chang
... ... of Cambridgeshire Constabulary, changed his plea to guilty to possession of a prohibited weapon contrary to section 5(1)(b) of the Firearms Act ... under section 26A of the Act that he is required to purchase a firearm or ammunition for his own use in his capacity as such, be entitled without ... ...
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