Browning v J W H Watson (Rochester) Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtQueen's Bench Division
Date1953
Year1953

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  • James & Son Ltd v Smee
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • Invalid date
  • R v Mealey
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 29 July 1974
    ...guilty. 23 I start such reference to authority as is necessary with a very short point taken by Lord Goddard in the case of Browning v. J.W.H. Watson (Rochester) Ltd., reported in 1953 2 All England Reports at page 775. This is a long way away from conspiracies to rob. It is concerned with ......
  • Maycock et Al v Commissioner of Police
    • Bahamas
    • Supreme Court (Bahamas)
    • 28 April 1995
    ...it does not affect the question of guilty or not guilty.’ Brannan v. Peek [1948] 1 KB 68 , Browning J.W.H. Watson (Rochester) Ltd. [1953] 1 WLR 1172, Reg v. Birtles [1969] 1 WLR 1047, illustrate that this is the practice of the courts, even when strongly critical of police methods in the......
  • R v Looseley
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 25 October 2001
    ...mark its disapproval was by admonishing the police (as Lord Goddard CJ had done in Brannan v Peek [1948] 1 KB 68, 72 and Browning v JWH Watson (Rochester) Ltd [1953] 1 WLR 1172, 1177) and by imposing a light or nominal sentence. It was for the police authorities to take disciplinary actio......
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1 books & journal articles
  • Two Recent Scottish Decisions, II
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 34-4, October 1970
    • 1 October 1970
    ...BoardofDirectorsoughtto haverealised was likely to involvethemin illegality (cr.Browningv.].W. H.Watson(Rochester)Ltd., 1953, 1 W.L.R. 1172;Forsythv.Phillips 1964,Crim.L.R. 229). Nothing decided in the present casecanhaveanyeffectupontheseparate questionofwhether acom-pany'scourseofbusiness......