Dillon v The Queen

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1982
Date1982
Year1982
CourtPrivy Council

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37 cases
  • DPP v John Paul Buck
    • Ireland
    • Court of Criminal Appeal
    • 27 November 2014
    ...resulting seizures of the search material. As such I do not consider it to be of any great assistance in the present case. Finally, in Dillon v. The Queen [1982] A.C. 484, a policeman had been charged with an offence of allowing the escape of persons held in lawful custody. The Privy Counci......
  • R v Parkes (Christine) and Calvin Nicholas
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 7 April 2006
    ...lawful. There is no presumption of lawfulness because of the fact that the individual is kept in a "prison or a lockup." 16 In the case of Dillon v. R [1982] 1 All ER 1017, the appellant a police officer was convicted for negligently permitting prisoners to escape from the cells which he wa......
  • Attorney General v Anthony Henry
    • St Lucia
    • Court of Appeal (Saint Lucia)
    • 10 November 2021
    ...Saint Lucia 2015 considered; Section 1021 of the Criminal Code 1992 considered; Liversidge v Anderson [1942] AC 206 applied; Dillon v R [1982] AC 484 considered; Schlieske v Federal Republic of Germany [1987] FCA 58 considered; Re S-C (Mental Patient: Habeas Corpus) [1996] QB 599 considere......
  • R v Singh et Al
    • Guyana
    • Court of Appeal (Guyana)
    • 28 September 1983
    ...existence of facts which are central to an offence. [See R. v. Willis, (1872) 12 Cox C.C. 164, Scott v. Banker, (1969) 1 Q.B. 659, Dillon v. The Queen, (1982) 2 W.L.R. 538.] The overriding principle laid down by the House of Lords in Woolmington v. Director of Public Prosecutions, (1935) ......
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