R v CPS Leicester

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeLORD JUSTICE MOSES,MR JUSTICE GOLDRING
Judgment Date21 December 2006
Neutral Citation[2006] EWCA Crim 3323
Docket NumberNo: 200605711/C5
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Date21 December 2006

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4 cases
  • The Director of Public Prosecutions v Jane Distill
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 8 September 2017
    ...if a garden was a "dwelling" as thus defined. 15 Mr Grieves-Smith relied on the judgment of the Court of Appeal in R. v Francis [2006] EWCA Crim 3323, which emphasized the narrow scope of the exception in section 5(2). And he submitted that the decision in Edwards and Roberts does not sugge......
  • Sliogeris v R
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 30 January 2015
    ...by H but an out of court accusation by H of P". 33 Hughes LJ had foreshadowed this distinction in Finch [2007] EWCA Crim 36; [2007] 1 Cr. App. R. 36 when he said (para.12): "We are conscious of the definition of "confession" in s.82 of the 1984 Act, that is to say as including "any stateme......
  • Le Vine v DPP
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 6 May 2010
    ...living accommodation because the householder lived inward of the front door, and not outward onto the common landing. In Francis [2007] 1 Weekly Law Reports 1021 the question is whether a police cell is a dwelling within the meaning of the section. The Court of Appeal held that it was not. ......
  • Nuku v ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    • New Zealand
    • High Court
    • 13 September 2019
    ...to screen the fronts of their cells by using blankets or towels at such times when they used the lavatory. 9 10 11 12 13 R v CF [2007] 1 Cr App R 36. At See the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in Wetherall v Canada [1993] 2 SCR 872 and R v Simon [2013] ABQB 95 at [50]. R v Wong [1993] SC......
3 books & journal articles
  • Divisional Court
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 74-5, October 2010
    • 1 October 2010
    ...of the front door and not out on to the communallanding.Further examination of the authorities led the court to the case of RvCF [2006] EWCA Crim 3323, [2007] 1 WLR 1021. In that case theaccused was in police custody and, whilst in a police cell, she allegedlymade a racially obscene remark ......
  • Court of Appeal
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 71-5, October 2007
    • 1 October 2007
    ...each case on its individual merits.Annabelle JamesPublic Order Act 1986, s. 8: A Police Cell as ‘other livingaccommodation’R vCF [2006] EWCA Crim 3323, [2007] 1 WLR 1021The respondent (CF) had been detained in police custody. During hertime in custody, and whilst in a police cell, she alleg......
  • Defendant’s Hearsay Evidence which Exculpates One Co-defendant by Incriminating Another
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 79-2, April 2015
    • 1 April 2015
    ...A matter relating to s. 76A that the Court of Appeal in Sliogeris (relying upon the previous deci- sions of that court in Finch [2007] 1 Cr App R 36 and in McLean [2008] 1 Cr App R 11) reconfirmed isthat, ‘to accept . . . that a statement may remain a confession whilst partially exculpatory......

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