DPP v Wishart Brooks

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1974
Date1974
Year1974
CourtPrivy Council

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25 cases
  • Director of Public Prosecutions v DT
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • June 4, 2025
    ...in this jurisdiction. It may be distilled from the decision of the Privy Council in Director of Public Prosecutions v Wishart Brooks (1974) 21 WIR 411 (‘ DPP v Brooks’). In that case, their Lordships dealt with the physical and mental elements of possession separately. At page 415, they st......
  • Levar Devere Browne v The Chief of Police
    • St Kitts & Nevis
    • Court of Appeal (Saint Kitts and Nevis)
    • July 5, 2023
    ...R v McNamara (1988) 152 JP 390 applied; R v Lambert [2002] 2 AC 545 applied; Salmon v HM Advocate 1998 SCCR 740 applied; DPP v Brooks (1974) 21 WIR 411 distinguished; Bernal and Moore v R (1997) 51 WIR 241 distinguished. 2. It is settled that it is perfectly possible for possession to exi......
  • Dexter Smith v 1) Attorney General 2) Commissioner of Police 3) Corporal Portia Nicholas 4) Sergeant Samuel Smart
    • Grenada
    • High Court (Grenada)
    • October 7, 2010
  • Darryl Frett v The Commissioner of Police
    • British Virgin Islands
    • Court of Appeal (British Virgin Islands)
    • June 6, 2024
    ...item found in the vehicle. Section 19 of the Criminal Code Act No. 1 of 1997 of the Laws of the Virgin Islands considered; DPP v Brooks (1974) 21 WIR 411 applied; Malcolm Maduro v The Queen Territory of the Virgin Islands HCRAP2007/004 (delivered 19th December 2008, unreported); Tenielle P......
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