DPP v Wishart Brooks

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1974
Date1974
Year1974
CourtPrivy Council
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20 cases
  • Levar Devere Browne v The Chief of Police
    • St Kitts & Nevis
    • Court of Appeal (Saint Kitts and Nevis)
    • 5 de julho de 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)
    • 7 de outubro de 2010
  • Albert Paulton v R
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 14 de janeiro de 2022
    ...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......
  • Tenielle Percival v The Chief of Police
    • St Kitts & Nevis
    • Court of Appeal (Saint Kitts and Nevis)
    • 10 de novembro de 2022
    ...Court to interfere with the finding that Mr. Percival had possession of the cannabis. Director of Public Prosecutions v Wishart Brooks (1974) 21 WIR 411 at 415 applied; R v Boyesen [1982] 2 All ER 161 at 163 applied; Ortiz and others v The Police (1993) 45 WIR 118 applied; Malcolm Maduro......
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