Practice Direction (Homicide: Indictment)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1964
Year1964
CourtCourt of Criminal Appeal
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5 cases
  • Jerome Dixon v R
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 29 July 2022
    ...its reasoning thus: ‘I am not unmindful of the change in practice in England by virtue of the practice direction by Lord Parker CJ (see 1964 1 WLR 1244) In the light of this practice it could not be reasonably expected that the Director of Public Prosecutions would have proceeded with the ......
  • Heron (Michael) v DPP and Attorney General for Jamaica
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 4 December 2000
    ...for murder". 16 I am not unmindful of the change in practice in England by virtue of the practice direction by Lord Parker C.J. (see 1964 1 W.L.R. 1244.) 17 In the light of this practice it could not be reasonably expected that the Director of Public Prosecutions would have proceeded with t......
  • R v Bradshaw et Al
    • Barbados
    • High Court (Barbados)
    • 28 October 1985
    ...in the House of Lords in Connelly v. D.P.P. [1964] 2 All E.R. 401 the following practice direction was issued by Lord Parker C.J. [1964] 3 All E.R. 509 – “In the opinion of this court the rule of practice laid down in R. v. Jones in the case of a charge of murder and in R. v. Large in the ......
  • Cottle et Al v R
    • St Vincent
    • Court of Appeal (Saint Vincent)
    • 20 May 1974
    ...no longer in force in England as a result of a Practice Direction issued by Lord Parker, C..J. on October 12, 1864 and published in [1964] 1 W.L.R. 1244. 16 In England, the prosecution now frame ‘their indictments as they think fit and the trial judge has a complete discretion under s.5 (3......
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1 books & journal articles
  • Court of Criminal Appeal
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 29-1, January 1965
    • 1 January 1965
    ...v.D.P.P. (1964, 2 W.L.R.II45;28J.C.L. 248) the Court(LordParker, C.J., AshworthandMilmo,JJ.)gave the followingpractice direction (1964, 1 W.L.R. 1244).Therule of practicelaid down in R. v. Jones (1918, 1K.B.416)andR. v. Large(1939 1AllE.R. 753; 3J.C.L. 265,419) in cases of charge ofmurderan......

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