Summary Summons in UK Law

  • Service of Summons
    • No. 15-4, October 1951
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The
    ... ... T HE issue of a summons by a magistrate is the normal way of instituting proceedings for the less serious offences in a court of summary jurisdiction. If the person to whom the summons is directed, or his legal represent- ative, fails to appear before the court at the time ... ...
  • Court of Appeal
    • No. 13-3, July 1949
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The
    ... ... Court of Appeal SUMMARY JURISDICTION ACTS : COMMITTAL AND JUDGMENT SUMMONS T HE summary ... ...
  • “Under My Hand and Seal”
    • No. 30-3, July 1957
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
    ... ... statement of the practice down to the passing of the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1848, and consequently before offenders could be ... In the Summary Jurisdiction Rules, 1886, the form of summons contained a place fer a seal (as indeed did the Summary ... ...
  • The Administration of Justice in Ireland
    • No. 34-1, March 1968
    • International Review of Administrative Sciences
    ... ... serve  on the  defendant  a ’Plenary  Summons’, ... parliament (Oireachtas) is  ultra vires the Con- ... court  of  summary" jurisdiction  with  a  limited ... Under the rules  of court,\xC2" ... ...
  • Mode of Trial of Offences Both Indictable and Summary
    • No. 4-3, July 1940
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The
    ... ... a case which couldwell be dealt with summarily.Theremedy of the prosecutionwould then be to apply for a mandamus to compel the issue ofthe summons inthedesired form. Mandamus may be granted ... 3~6THEJOURNALOFCRIMINAL LAWagainst justices declining to issue a summons if they have notproperly ... ...
  • Jurisdiction of Magistrates' Courts
    • No. 20-1, January 1956
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The
    ... ... a county or borough shall have jurisdic- tion to try all summary offences and to deal with offences as examining justices which are ... the words 'who appears' refer to a person appearing on a summons, and the words 'is brought before the court' refer to a person ... ...
  • Commentary on the Report of the Aboriginals and the Law Mission, International Commission of Jurists, Australian Section
    • No. 25-2, July 1992
    • Journal of Criminology (formerly Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology)
    ... ... The NSW Summary Offences Act (1988) and Public Order Offences A major issue to emerge ... to prosecute and to proceed by way of arrest rather than summons particularly in relation to street offences. The report noted that: ... ...
  • The Courts (Emergency Powers) Act, 1939
    • No. 3-4, October 1939
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The
    ... ... Powers) Act, 1939, although its effect on courts of summary jurisdiction will be somewhat limited. The Act is to come into ... a notice has been served on the defendant with the summons. If judgment has been given against the defendant an application for ... ...
  • Courts of Summary Jurisdiction
    • No. 28-1, January 1964
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The
    ... ... Accord- ingly they dismissed those thirteen summonses. On the fourteenth summons, however, the one concerned with the occasion when the prosecutor informed the defendant that the vehicle was causing obstruction and he ... ...
  • Egyptian Criminal Procedure Comparatively Treated
    • No. 3-1, January 1930
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
    ... ... roughly to misdemeanours in English Law, are tried by Summary Judges, sitting alone in each of the police divisions of the ... considers that it is necessary, or to send the accused by a summons before the Summary Judge for trial, if it is satisfied that a prima ... ...
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