R v Bailey
| Jurisdiction | Northern Ireland |
| Judgment Date | 01 January 1956 |
| Date | 01 January 1956 |
| Court | Court of Criminal Appeal (Northern Ireland) |
Acts prejudicial to administration of public justice.
The appellant, who had made a false confession to the police implicating two other men and himself in a murder, was convicted on an indictment which described the offence as "Effecting a public mischief" and alleged in the particulars of offence that the appellant's false statements caused police officers. maintained at the public expense for the public benefit to devote their time to the investigation of false allegations thereby depriving the public of their services and rendering subjects liable to suspicion, accusation and arrest. Held by the Court of Criminal Appeal (Lord MacDermott, L.C.J. Porter and Black, L.JJ.) that the acts of the appellant were prejudicial to the administration of public justice and accordingly constituted an indictable common law misdemeanour. The category of acts prejudicial to the administration of public justice is not limited to acts affecting the processes of adjudication, but extends to acts affecting the police in their functions of...
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