R Martin Kay v Scan-Thors (UK) Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeLord Justice Gross,Mr Justice Sweeney
Judgment Date23 May 2018
Neutral Citation[2018] EWHC 1233 (Admin)
CourtQueen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
Docket NumberCase No: CO/5897/2016
Date23 May 2018
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12 cases
  • London Borough of Barking and Dagenham v Argos Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 8 June 2022
    ...of the court when considering an information were helpfully explained by the Divisional Court in R (OAO Kay) v Leeds Magistrates Court [2018] 4 W.L.R. 91. That was a decision about the duty of candour and disclosure when a private prosecutor seeks the issue of a summons, and the actual res......
  • Danny Mansfield v DPP
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 3 November 2021
    ...exercised jurisdiction on the facts of the case before him. 28 The recent decision in R (Kay and another) v Leeds Magistrates Court [2018] EWHC 1233 (Admin) appears directly to conflict with Nembhard and Woolls. Kay concerned the issuing of a summonses for a private prosecution which the p......
  • Total Sprint Ltd v Swale Borough Council
    • United Kingdom
    • King's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 29 November 2023
    ...relied on the decisions in R v Manchester Stipendiary Magistrate ex p Hill [1983] 1 AC 328 and R (Kay) v Leeds Magistrates' Court [2018] EWHC 1233 (Admin), [2018] 4 WLR 91 respectively for the propositions that the issue of a summons was a judicial act and that a breach of the duty of can......
  • Mohamed Lahrie Mohamed & Shehara Lahrie v Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Waltham Forest
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 7 May 2020
    ...not disclose all elements of the offence of misconduct in public office and it was quashed. In R(Kay) v Leeds Magistrates' Court [2018] EWHC 1233 (Admin); [2018] 4 WLR 91 the Court emphasised the duty of candour on prosecutors when they apply ex parte for the issue of a summons. It was no......
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  • Finding The Balance ' Public Law Duties In Private Prosecutions
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 2 November 2022
    ...including a duty of full and frank disclosure: In R (on the application of Kay and another) -v- Leeds Magistrates' Court and Another [2018] EWHC 1233 (Admin) the Divisional Court (Sweeney J and Gross LJ) addressed the importance of the duty of In that case, the private prosecutor applied at......

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