R v Burnett

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1973
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
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4 cases
  • R v Sang (on Appeal from HM Court of Appeal (Criminal Division))
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 25 July 1979
    ...of serious charges. A similar course was taken in Reg. v. Foulder, Foulkes and Johns [1973] Crim.L.R. 45 and in Reg. v. Burnett & Lee [1973] Crim.L.R. 748. 31One of the questions to be decided in this appeal is whether these cases were rightly decided. If they were, it means, to quote from ......
  • R v Looseley
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 25 October 2001
    ...not constituting 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 S......
  • R. v. Loosely, (2001) 280 N.R. 229 (HL)
    • Canada
    • 25 October 2001
    ...R. 59, refd to. [paras. 7, 55]. R. v. Foulder, Foulkes and John, [1973] Crim. L.R. 45, refd to. [para. 7]. R. v. Burnett and Lee, [1973] Crim. L.R. 748, refd to. [para. R. v. Ameer and Lucas, [1977] Crim. L.R. 104 (C.A.), refd to. [para. 7]. R. v. McCann (Edward) (1971), 56 Cr. App. R. 359 ......
  • R v Shannon (John James)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 14 September 2000
    ...to exclude evidence obtained as the result of the activities of an agent provocateur: see R v Foulder [1973] Crim. L..45, R v Burnett [1973] Crim L.R. 748 and R v Amerl [977] Crim L.R. 104. Those three decisions were overruled in Sang, the House of Lords holding that, whatever the width of ......

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