Crane v DPP
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Date | 1921 |
| Court | House of Lords |
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Re Harrington (pet. all.); R v Dorking Justices, ex parte Harrington (pet. all.)
...— not proof that the accused was in peril of conviction for that offence. …" 23 Lord Sumner in Crane v. Director of Public Prosecutions [1921] 2 A.C. 299, p. 332 said, in a venire de novo case: "Acquittal implies that a true legal trial has been had. Here there has legally been none at all,......
- Munday v Gill
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R v Rose (Newton) ; R v Johnson ; R v Clarke ; R v Henry
...to issue writs of venire de novo and, if so, in what circumstances such power could be exercised, came before this House in 1921 in Crane v. D.P.P. [1921] 2 A.C.299. This was a case in which Crane and another defendant who had been charged on separate indictments, had been tried together at......
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R v Booth ; R v Molland ; R v Wood
...AC 822 at 830, "a twofold jurisdiction". 17 The question in Rose related to the court's power to issue a venire de novo. The court applied Crane v DPP [1921] 2 AC 299. Lord Diplock, at 831A, dealt with Crane as follows: "My Lords, the question whether despite the abolition of the power to g......
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Court of Criminal Appeal
...to appear at the next quarter sessions to answer theindictment.Thisorder had been approved when that casereached the House ofLords(see 1921, 2A.C., 299).Thelordships proposed to make a similar order in the present case.On the application of counsel for the appellant that, asthe case had alr......
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Consequences of Irregularity Vitiating Trial
...itmayact atcommonlaw (as confirmed by statute) bytheissueof writs ofveniredenovo.The existence of this choice was confirmed inCranevDPP[1921] 2 AC 299. Inthatcase,theappellanthadnotbeentriedontheonly indictment which could be levelled against him, sothatit couldnotbe saidthathehadbeen convi......
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Consequences of Irregularity Vitiating Trial
...itmayact atcommonlaw (as confirmed by statute) bytheissueof writs ofveniredenovo.The existence of this choice was confirmed inCranevDPP[1921] 2 AC 299. Inthatcase,theappellanthadnotbeentriedontheonly indictment which could be levelled against him, sothatit couldnotbe saidthathehadbeen convi......
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MISTRIAL
...part of it. It often results in situations in which it can be said that in law these has been no trial at all: See: Crane v. D.P.P. 15 Cr. App. R. 183; The State v. Lopez (1968) 1 All L.R. 356; R. v. Gee (1936) 25 Cr. App. R. 198 at p. 203." - Per Nnaemeka-Agu, J.S.C., in Okaroh v. State Su......