DPP v Phillips

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtKing's Bench Division
Year1935
Date1935

Get this document and AI-powered insights with a free trial of vLex and Vincent AI

Get Started for Free

Start Your Free Trial of vLex and Vincent AI, Your Precision-Engineered Legal Assistant

  • Access comprehensive legal content with no limitations across vLex's unparalleled global legal database

  • Build stronger arguments with verified citations and CERT citator that tracks case history and precedential strength

  • Transform your legal research from hours to minutes with Vincent AI's intelligent search and analysis capabilities

  • Elevate your practice by focusing your expertise where it matters most while Vincent handles the heavy lifting

vLex

Start Your Free Trial of vLex and Vincent AI, Your Precision-Engineered Legal Assistant

  • Access comprehensive legal content with no limitations across vLex's unparalleled global legal database

  • Build stronger arguments with verified citations and CERT citator that tracks case history and precedential strength

  • Transform your legal research from hours to minutes with Vincent AI's intelligent search and analysis capabilities

  • Elevate your practice by focusing your expertise where it matters most while Vincent handles the heavy lifting

vLex

Start Your Free Trial of vLex and Vincent AI, Your Precision-Engineered Legal Assistant

  • Access comprehensive legal content with no limitations across vLex's unparalleled global legal database

  • Build stronger arguments with verified citations and CERT citator that tracks case history and precedential strength

  • Transform your legal research from hours to minutes with Vincent AI's intelligent search and analysis capabilities

  • Elevate your practice by focusing your expertise where it matters most while Vincent handles the heavy lifting

vLex

Start Your Free Trial of vLex and Vincent AI, Your Precision-Engineered Legal Assistant

  • Access comprehensive legal content with no limitations across vLex's unparalleled global legal database

  • Build stronger arguments with verified citations and CERT citator that tracks case history and precedential strength

  • Transform your legal research from hours to minutes with Vincent AI's intelligent search and analysis capabilities

  • Elevate your practice by focusing your expertise where it matters most while Vincent handles the heavy lifting

vLex

Start Your Free Trial of vLex and Vincent AI, Your Precision-Engineered Legal Assistant

  • Access comprehensive legal content with no limitations across vLex's unparalleled global legal database

  • Build stronger arguments with verified citations and CERT citator that tracks case history and precedential strength

  • Transform your legal research from hours to minutes with Vincent AI's intelligent search and analysis capabilities

  • Elevate your practice by focusing your expertise where it matters most while Vincent handles the heavy lifting

vLex

Start Your Free Trial of vLex and Vincent AI, Your Precision-Engineered Legal Assistant

  • Access comprehensive legal content with no limitations across vLex's unparalleled global legal database

  • Build stronger arguments with verified citations and CERT citator that tracks case history and precedential strength

  • Transform your legal research from hours to minutes with Vincent AI's intelligent search and analysis capabilities

  • Elevate your practice by focusing your expertise where it matters most while Vincent handles the heavy lifting

vLex
16 cases
  • Re Titan Marketing Gesellschaft; Senator Hanseatische Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • July 24, 1996
    ...point of distinction to be drawn between the present scheme and that held to be an unlawful lottery by the Divisional Court in DPP v Phillips [1935] 1 KB 391. As I understood him Mr Bannister in the end did not seriously suggest that this case was distinguishable; his main submission being ......
  • Atkinson v Murrell
    • United Kingdom
    • Divisional Court
    • Invalid date
    ...chance that the chain would not be broken before his name reached the top of the list, the scheme was a lottery. Director of Public Prosecutions v. Phillips [1935] 1 K.B. 391, D.C. and Barnes v. Strathern, 1929 J.C. 41 applied. (2) That, although in a lottery a participant had to pay for hi......
  • Lim Seah Pong v PP
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • January 1, 1957
  • The Secretary of State for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform v Amway (Uk) Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • May 14, 2008
    ...foundation calling the scheme “a lottery” was a direct application (as the judgment itself makes clear) of the decision in DPP v Phillips [1935] 1 KB 391. In that case a company bought a quantity of note cases for the equivalent of 7.5 pence each. These note cases were then sold to the publ......
  • Get Started for Free
1 books & journal articles
  • Notes on Recent Crime
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles No. 8-1, January 1935
    • January 1, 1935
    ...two men received four years' penal servitude.An important Lottery Act decision-DirectorofPublicProsecutionsv. Phillips, reported 51 T.L.R.54-shouldbenoted.TheHigh Court decided that "chain"selling ofarticles in such a way that sellers draw commission till thechain is broken, is a lottery an......