Chief Constable of Police Service of Northern Ireland v Kenneth Mark Cassells and Tanya Elizabeth Cassells

JurisdictionNorthern Ireland
JudgeKerr LCJ
Judgment Date2007
Neutral Citation[2007] NICA 12
CourtCourt of Appeal (Northern Ireland)
Date02 March 2007
1
Neutral Citation no. [2007] NICA 12
Ref:
KERF5771
Judgment: approved by the Court for handing down
Delivered:
02/03/07
(subject to editorial corrections)*
IN HER MAJESTY’S COURT OF APPEAL IN NORTHERN IRELAND
________
APPEAL BY WAY OF CASE STATED FROM A DECISION OF
A YOUTH COURT
________
Between:
CHIEF CONSTABLE OF POLICE SERVICE OF NORTHERN IRELAND
Complainant/Appellant
and
KENNETH MARK CASSELLS
First Defendant/Respondent
and
TANYA ELIZABETH CASSELLS
Second Defendant/Respondent
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Before Kerr LCJ, Campbell LJ and Higgins LJ
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KERR LCJ
Introduction
[1] This is an appeal by way of case stated from the decision of a Youth Court
sitting at Larne on 27 April 2006. The panel comprised Mr Robert Alcorn,
resident magistrate, and Ms L Magee and Mr R McDonnell, lay magistrates.
The first defendant, who is a young man now aged nineteen, having been
born on 7 February 1988, had pleaded guilty to having driven a motor vehicle
on a road after having consumed so much alcohol that the proportion of it in

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