R v Cockshott

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1898
Year1898
CourtDivisional Court
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27 cases
  • R v Terry Butt
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 6 October 2023
    ...a passage cited in Clark which traces its roots back through a series of different enactments. The origin of this approach appears to be R v Cockshott [1898] 1 QB 582, which construed section 17 of the Summary Jurisdiction Act 1879 in this way. Its statutory descendants have always been tr......
  • R Ali Bahbahani v Ealing Magistrates' Court
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 6 June 2019
    ... ... In the case of R v Cockshott [1898] 1 QB 582 a Divisional Court held that the failure to inform an accused of his right to be tried by a jury, when he was entitled to make that choice pursuant to section 17 of the Summary Jurisdiction Act 1879, was the breach of an absolute rule that the accused should be provided with ... ...
  • BH v Norwich Youth Court
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 11 January 2023
    ...relation to the distinction between a procedural and a jurisdictional requirement. Mr Rule began his review of the authorities with R v Cockshott and others [1898] 1 Q.B. 582 and moved forward from there. We do not need engage in any historical analysis of the position. The issue we have t......
  • Re McC. (A Minor)
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 22 November 1984
    ...resulted in a trespass to the person. 48 Lord Lowry C.J. in giving the judgment of the Court of Appeal referred to Reg. v. Cockshott [1898] 1 Q.B. 582 and Reg. v. Kettering Justices, Ex parte Patmore [1968] 1 W.L.R. 1436. These are both cases where convictions following summary trials by ju......
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1 books & journal articles
  • Divisional Court Cases
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 18-4, October 1954
    • 1 October 1954
    ...asentence of morethanthree months' imprisonment is imposed has always beenjealously guarded by the High Court.InR.v. Cockshutt (1898,1Q.B. 582) it was held that the right to be explicitly informedthattheoffence was one in which trial byjurycould beclaimed, could not be waived. As Darling J.......

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