DPP v Hawkins

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

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5 cases
  • R Crown/Respondent v Joseph Brice Defendant/Applicant [ECSC]
    • Anguilla
    • High Court (Saint Christopher, Nevis And Anguilla)
    • 11 June 2012
    ...and Dillon v. R., 35 WIR 272. Also, Mr. Fraser said another element of the abuse is Mr. Brice's unlawful arrest. He referred to Hawkins [1988] 1 WLR 1166; Edwards v. DPP [1993] 97 Cr App R 301; and Lewis v. Chief Constable of South Wales Constabulary [1991] 1 ALL ER 205 in support of his ar......
  • R v Brice
    • Anguilla
    • High Court (Saint Christopher, Nevis And Anguilla)
    • 11 June 2012
    ...and Dillon v. R., 35 WIR 272. Also, Mr. Fraser said another element of the abuse is Mr. Brice's unlawful arrest. He referred to Hawkins [1988] 1 WLR 1166; Edwards v. DPP [1993] 97 Cr App R 301; and Lewis v. Chief Constable of South Wales Constabulary [1991] 1 ALL ER 205 in support of his a......
  • Dilon Curwen (by his Litigation Friend Mrs Elizabeth Curwen) v Chief Constable of Cumbria Constabulary
    • United Kingdom
    • King's Bench Division
    • 23 January 2026
    ...become unlawful at the point (if any) at which it becomes practicable to give him the reasons for the arrest: DPP v Hawkins, [1988] 1 WLR 1166 at 1170C-F. Discussion 89 The burden of pleading and proving a defence to a claim of false imprisonment is on the Defendant. It is, however, import......
  • Edwards (Deborah) v DPP
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 23 March 1993
    ...to infer he had something else in mind. Therefore the arrest was not lawful under section 25. Reliance was also placed on DPP v HawkinsWLR ([1988] 1 WLR 1166) as authority for the proposition that an arrest was lawful as long as the officer was acting in the execution of his duty notwithsta......
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3 books & journal articles
  • 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
    ...is not a legal concept: the dictum follows, after all, the citation of 60 See the reference by Simon Brown J. in D.P.P. v. Hawkins ([1988] 3 All E.R. 673) to the point as one dealing with the Christie v. Leachinsky principle, and sec per Balcombe L.J. in Lewis v. Chief Constable of the Sout......
  • Police Powers: Entry and Arrest
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 69-2, April 2005
    • 1 April 2005
    ...and may have involved abreach of Article 5 of the European Convention. The police can only dowhat is practicable (DPP v Hawkins (1989) 88 Cr App R 166) and theyhad informed him of his arrest for breach of the peace as soon as his ownconduct permitted this. This was the extent of their duty ......
  • Public Order Act 1986, S. 5: Requirement That Behaviour Be Witnessed
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 69-2, April 2005
    • 1 April 2005
    ...and may have involved abreach of Article 5 of the European Convention. The police can only dowhat is practicable (DPP v Hawkins (1989) 88 Cr App R 166) and theyhad informed him of his arrest for breach of the peace as soon as his ownconduct permitted this. This was the extent of their duty ......