Mayon v DPP

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1988
Date1988
CourtDivisional Court
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3 cases
  • Mercer v DPP
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 3 Febrero 2003
    ...decisions of this court, notably Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset v Creech [1986] RTR 87 and Mayon v Director of Public Prosecutions [1988] RTR 281. 29 In Creech the defendant provided one sample of breath but on hearing the result became anxious about his position and his future. While......
  • R SNEYD v DPP
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 24 Febrero 2006
    ...accepted limits the machine is not calibrating as it should and is therefore unreliable. 30 In Mayon v Director of Public Prosecutions [1988] RTR 281, it was held that in the absence of evidence of calibration either before or after the second specimen was produced, there had been a failure......
  • Christopher John Derham v DPP
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 19 Mayo 1998
    ...before the lower court that the machine was properly calibrated. The position, as clearly explained by Glidewell LJ in Mayon v DPP [1988] RTR 281, 285, is that if oral evidence is given then it is necessary for the witness to establish that the machine has been properly calibrated, but that......
2 books & journal articles
  • Table of Cases
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill Drink and Drug Drive Case Notes Preliminary Sections
    • 29 Agosto 2015
    ...Mayhew v DPP, unreported, CO/313/87, DC! 533 ....................................................... Mayon v DPP [1988] RTR 281, DC! 278 , 283, 286 ...................... McClean v DPP [2009] EWHC 189 (Admin), [2009] RTR 19, DC! 122 ................................................................
  • Challenging the Breath Testing and Breath Analysis Devices
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill Drink and Drug Drive Case Notes Contents
    • 29 Agosto 2015
    ...other times did not lead them to consider that the machine was defective on the evening in question.” Application dismissed. Mayon v DPP [1988] RTR 281, 4 February 1988, QBD (DC) The breath analysis device must be shown to have been working properly by proof that the calibration was within ......

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