Private Prosecution in UK Law
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Gouriet v Union of Post Office Workers
... ... Gouriet, as a private citizen, was entitled to come to the court and ask for an injunction ... law enforced has a remedy of his own: he can bring a private prosecution. This historical right which goes right back to the earliest days of our ... ...
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R v Humphrys
... ... of the respondent in Lenthall Avenue, gave evidence for the prosecution. Mrs. Reynolds said that in 1972 she saw a motor cycle at 39 Lenthall ... "…it is of great importance constitutionally that a private person may lay an information and be bound over by a magistrate to ... ...
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Crawford Adjusters (Cayman) Ltd v Sagicor General Insurance (Cayman) Ltd
... ... of the closely related torts of abuse of process and malicious prosecution ... 2 The appellants are Mr Alastair ... He arranged for private investigators to place Mr Paterson under surveillance. He caused Sagicor ... ...
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Ashworth Hospital Authority v MGN Ltd
... ... The hearing was held in private but, due to the public interest in the case, Maurice Kay J delivered his ... Today, when prosecution, subject to rare exceptions, is the task of the state, I can see no ... ...
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Broome v Cassell & Company Ltd
... ... Private litigants have been put to immense expense, of which most must be borne by ... that a private individual misusing legal powers of private prosecution or arrest as in Leith v. Pope [1779] 2 Wm.B.1. 1327 , where the ... ...
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R v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, ex parte Blackburn
... ... decision for him to promote or assist in the promotion of a prosecution for breach of Section 32 of the 1963 Act ... 16 Mr Blackburn was ... long as it remains possible for large fortunes to be made by the private exploitation of gaming, the evils to which I have referred will grow and ... ...
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Kuddus v Chief Constable of Leicestershire Constabulary
... ... reference to the facts of this case�to oppressive action by private corporations or individuals. Where one man is more powerful than another, ... that a private individual misusing legal powers of private prosecution or arrest � might not at some future date be assimilated into the ... ...
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R (Purdy) v DPP
... ... and until it falls for determination in the context of a prosecution. I say this because I do not approach the question in the same way as Lord ... prohibited acts which were of a kind calculated to cause harm to private individuals as excusable merely on the ground that the victim was not in ... ...
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Brooks v Metropolitan Police Commisioner
... ... identify the lessons to be learned from the investigation and prosecution of racially motivated crimes. It was an exhaustive inquiry: the oral ... The family of Stephen Lawrence started a private prosecution against five youths for murder. Three of them stood trial at ... ...
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A.B. v South West Water Services Ltd
... ... reference to the facts of this case—to oppressive action by private corporations or individuals. Where one man is more powerful than another, ... is received by the state, not (even in the case of a private prosecution) by the prosecutor. In a civil case, arising out of a civil wrong (whether ... ...
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