DPP v Billington

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1988
Year1988
CourtQueen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)

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27 cases
  • DPP v Noe
    • United Kingdom
    • Divisional Court
    • Invalid date
  • DPP v Ward
    • United Kingdom
    • Divisional Court
    • 24 March 1997
  • Chalupa v Crown Prosecution Service
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 30 October 2009
    ...Before considering the submissions in the case, I will deal with some of the more important authorities chronologically. In DPP vs Billington [1988]1 WLR 535, Lord Justice Lloyd, with whom Mr Justice Mann agreed, giving judgment in the Divisional court, made it plain that neither the legisl......
  • DPP v Skinner
    • United Kingdom
    • Divisional Court
    • Invalid date
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6 books & journal articles
  • Wielding a "very long, people-intensive spear": inherently governmental functions and the role of contractors in U.S. Department of Defense unmanned aircraft systems missions.
    • United States
    • Air Force Law Review No. 70, December 2013
    • 22 December 2013
    ...(3) and (12). (151) OFPP Policy Letter 11-1, supra note 127, at Appendix A. "Examples of inherently governmental functions," (4) and (5). (152) JP 1-02, supra note 8 (The dictionary's purpose is to assist communications within and between the Services, other agencies, and U.S. allies by sup......
  • Divisional Court
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 62-4, August 1998
    • 1 August 1998
    ...and, because of the lack of this 'safeguard' for so young adefendant, to dismiss the information.316 Divisional CourtInDPPv Billington[1988]RTR 231, the court considered therelationship between ss 7 and 8 of the Road Traffic Act 1988, giving thedriver an option of substituting a specimen of......
  • Police powers in England and Wales: the courts and the changes of pace
    • Barbados
    • Caribbean Law Review No. 3-2, December 1993
    • 1 December 1993
    ...Mason, and R. v. Gill and Ranuana, supra, n.12. 19 [1988] 3 All E.R. 683. 20 See Gelowitz, 106 L.Q.R. (supra, n.6) at 327. 21 [1988] 1 All E.R. 435. When Billington is considered together with D.P.P. v. Marshall, 22 another aspect of the problem seems to pose itself. Even if Marshall were t......
  • Excuse for Failure to Supply a Specimen
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 63-6, December 1999
    • 1 December 1999
    ...for innovation...isvery limited'. Thus, it isnotareasonable excuse for failureifoneshowsthat a solicitor didnotappear (DPP vBillingham[1988]RTR231) or toprove a genuine belief that one may decline to cooperate withthepolicebefore the arrival of a solicitor (Grennan vWestcott[1988]RTR253).He......
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