Attorney General's Reference (No. 1 of 1990)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date13 April 1992
Date13 April 1992
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
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    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
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    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 16 July 1992
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  • R v F
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 21 July 2011
    ...and that no corresponding jurisdiction to bring the trial to an end on some equivalent basis before conviction exists, so Attorney-General's Reference (No 1) of 1990 established the principles to be applied in the context of delay, whether in cases involving delayed complaints of sexual abu......
  • R v Feltham Magistrates Court, ex parte Ebrahim ; Mouat v DPP
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 21 February 2001
    ...ought only to be employed in exceptional circumstances, whatever the reasons submitted for invoking it. See Attorney-General's Reference (No 1 of 1990) [1992] QB 630, 643G. 18 The two categories of cases in which the power to stay proceedings for abuse of process may be invoked in this area......
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9 books & journal articles
  • Subject Index
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 9-4, December 2005
    • 1 December 2005
    ...General v Hitchcock (1847) 154ER 38 (Exch. Ct) .........................................10 7Attorney-General’s Reference (No. 1 of 1990)[1992] QB 630, CA .....................................165Attorney-General’s Reference (No. 4 of2002); Sheldrake v DPP [2004] UKHL43 ............................
  • The interpretation and application of the right to effective participation
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 22-4, October 2018
    • 1 October 2018
    ...participation difficulties in the magistrates’ courts,see Law Commission (2016a: ch. 7); Bevan (2016).60. AG’s Ref (no 1 of 1990) [1992] QB 630 at 643; R (Ebrahim) vFeltham Magistrates’ Court [2001] EWHC Admin 130 at [17];R (TP) vWest London Youth Court, n. 26 at [14].61. R (TP) vWest Londo......
  • Lost and Destroyed Evidence: The Search for a Principled Approach to Abuse of Process
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 9-3, July 2005
    • 1 July 2005
    ...tape acted in perfect38 [2001] EWHC Admin 130, [2001] 1 WLR 1293 at [17].39 Ibid. at [26].40 Attorney-General’s Reference (No. 1 of 1990) [1992] QB 630 at 643, CA.41 J. C. Smith, ‘Trial: Abuse of Process—Destruction of Video Tape by Police’ [2000] Crim LR 415at 166 THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL......
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    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 10-3, July 2006
    • 1 July 2006
    ...A. Choo,Abuse of Process and Judicial Stays of Criminal Proceedings (Oxford, 1993)) . In Attorney-General’s Reference No. 1 of 1990 (1992) 95 Cr App R 296 at 303, Lord Lane CJ said that adefendant who alleged abuse of process by reason of delay must prove seriousprejudice ‘on the balance of......
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