Chambers v DPP

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1995
Date1995
CourtDivisional Court
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14 cases
  • Chee Siok Chin and Others v Minister for Home Affairs and Another
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 7 December 2005
    ...authority that took a pragmatic and robust view of the applicable legislation. 79 In Chambers v The Director of Public Prosecutions [1995] Crim LR 896, Lexis Nexis CO/3493/1994 (“Chambers’ case”), Keene J pertinently … [counsel] has sought to refer the Court to the White Paper, ‘Review of P......
  • Stephen Peter Gough v DPP
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 31 October 2013
    ...to his own beliefs. 14 Mr Penny submits that the conduct of the appellant was plainly "disorderly behaviour" within s. 5. He points to Chambers v DPP [1995] Crim LR 896 in which the appellant demonstrators persistently prevented a surveyor from using a theodolite by blocking its infra-red b......
  • DPP v Morrison
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 4 April 2003
    ...but whether, as the statute provides and the charge set out, it was likely to be caused. Mr John cited Chambers and Edwards v DPP [1995] Crim LR 896, cited in the stated case. 33. As to the second reason, s. 6(4) of the Public Order Act 1986 provides: "(4) A person is guilty of an offence u......
  • Chee Siok Chin and Others v Minister for Home Affairs and Another
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 7 December 2005
    ...authority that took a pragmatic and robust view of the applicable legislation. 79 In Chambers v The Director of Public Prosecutions [1995] Crim LR 896, Lexis Nexis CO/3493/1994 (“Chambers’ case”), Keene J pertinently … [counsel] has sought to refer the Court to the White Paper, ‘Review of P......
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2 books & journal articles
  • Administrative and Constitutional Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2005, December 2005
    • 1 December 2005
    ...the latter, Rajah J agreed (at [79]) with the views of Keene J expressed in Chambers and Edwards v The Director of Public Prosecutions[1995] Crim LR 896 where the judge found that it was of little value to look at the preceding White Paper particularly where the Bill itself underwent signif......
  • Recent Judicial Decisions
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles No. 75-1, March 2002
    • 1 March 2002
    ...abusive orinsulting, nor that it brought about any feelings of apprehension in the person to whom itwas directed Chambers v DPP [1995] Crim LR 896. The wording of s. 5 is not limited torowdy behaviour and will extend to any behaviour that could be construed as threatening,abusive or insulti......

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