Police Service for Northern Ireland v Richard Shaw MacRitchie
| Jurisdiction | Northern Ireland |
| Judge | Kerr LCJ |
| Judgment Date | 20 June 2008 |
| Neutral Citation | [2008] NICA 26 |
| Year | 2008 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Northern Ireland) |
| Date | 20 June 2008 |
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Neutral Citation No. [2008] NICA 26 Ref:
KER7211
Judgment: approved by the Court for handing down Delivered:
20/6/08
(subject to editorial corrections)*
IN HER MAJESTY’S COURT OF APPEAL IN NORTHERN IRELAND
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BETWEEN:
POLICE SERVICE FOR NORTHERN IRELAND
Complainant/Appellant
-and-
RICHARD SHAW MacRITCHIE
Defendant/Respondent
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Before Kerr LCJ, Higgins LJ and Girvan LJ
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KERR LCJ
Introduction
[1] This is an appeal by way of case stated from a decision of Mrs Fiona
Bagnall, resident magistrate, acceding to an application for a direction of no
case to answer made at Belfast Magistrates’ Court on 9 October 2007 on behalf
of the defendant/respondent, Richard MacRitchie, in relation to a charge of
voyeurism contrary to section 67 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003. We shall
refer to Mr MacRitchie as ‘the defendant’.
[2] The magistrate had been invited by the prosecution to consider by way of
alternative to the offence preferred, a charge of attempted voyeurism but she
declined to do so, observing that she was unable to conclude that there was
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