R v Ameer and Lucas

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Date1977
Year1977

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9 cases
  • R v Sang (on Appeal from HM Court of Appeal (Criminal Division))
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 25 Julio 1979
    ...was not a case of entrapment. Moreover there had also been a recent decision at the Central Criminal Court ( Reg. v. Ameer & Lucas [1977] Crim.L.R. 104) in a case which did involve an agent provocateur where Judge Gilles, after a lengthy trial within a trial, had exercised his discretio......
  • R v Sang
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 13 Diciembre 1978
    ...its case – see, for example, the ruling of His Honour Judge Gillis on 30th July, 1976, briefly reported in (1977) C.L.R. 104 in Ameer and Lucas. The making of this concession does not appear from that report, but we have a transcript of the learned judge's ruling and the making of the conce......
  • Maycock et Al v Commissioner of Police
    • Bahamas
    • Supreme Court (Bahamas)
    • 28 Abril 1995
    ...upon which in the last resort all judges have to rely: but any extension of the discretion, such as occurred in Reg v. Ameer and Lucas [1977] Crim LR 104 - to which my noble and learned friends, Lord Diplock and Viscount Dilhorne, have referred with disapproval - would also undermine the ju......
  • R v Looseley
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 25 Octubre 2001
    ...a defence, in some cases judges excluded evidence in entrapment cases: R v Foulder [1973] Crim LR 45, R v Burnett [1973] Crim LR 748 and R v Ameer [1977] Crim LR 104. Entrapment was regarded as a mitigating factor in, for instance, R v McCann (1971) 56 Cr App R 8 In R v Sang [1980] AC 40......
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1 books & journal articles
  • Recent Judicial Decisions
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles No. 53-1, January 1980
    • 1 Enero 1980
    ...had agreed to be examinedand at the trial the doctor had given evidence of unfitness. Theconviction was quashed. Recently in R. v.Ameer[1977]Crim. L.R.104 evidence was excluded because the offence had been broughtabout with the help of an agent provocateur. Despite this the trialjudge in Sa......