Barnard v Gorman
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Date | 1941 |
| Court | House of Lords |
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42 cases
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Olorunfunmilayo Oluwaseun Akinsanya v Secretary of State for the Home Department
...hands of the rule makers and Parliament, and not in the hands of the judges. In reaching this conclusion I follow Viscount Simon LC in Barnard v. Gorman [1941] AC 378, a case turning on the meaning of the word “offender” in s.186 of the Customs Consolidation Act 1876. He said at 384: “Our ......
- Koh Yoke Koon v Minister for Home Affairs, Malaysia and Another
- Haji Omar Din bin Mawaidin v Minister for Home Affairs, Malaysia and Another
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Walker v Lovell (on Appeal from a Divisional Court of the Queen's Bench Division)
...effecting the arrest may lawfully do so if he has reasonable cause for suspecting that person of being guilty. ( Barnard v. Gorman [1941] A.C. 378). 29In deciding this question of construction it is in my view proper to take into account the legal characteristics of a constable's power of a......
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Recent Judicial Decisions
...powerofarrest only operates if theoffence is subsequently proved to have been committed.Justas inBarnard v. Gorman (XV P.J. 89) [1941] A.C. 378, it was saidthatinthecontext"drunk"meant"apparentlydrunk",so inthecontextoftheRoadTraffic Act " committing anoffence"meant"appar-ently committing a......