R v Croydon Youth Court, ex parte DPP

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1997
Year1997
CourtQueen's Bench Division
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14 cases
  • DPP v Gautam Chajed
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 17 January 2013
    ...decision was section 142. However, the purpose and scope of the provisions in that section are very limited. In R v Croydon Youth Court ex parte Director of Public Prosecutions [1997] 2 Cr App R 411 at page 416F-417 A, McCowan LJ, giving the judgment of this court, said this: "In my judgmen......
  • Ryan Harvey v The Director of Public Prosecutions
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 29 January 2021
    ...of this case did not fall within the proper scope of section 142(2) of the 1980 Act at all. Croydon Youth Court, ex parte DPP [1997] 2 Cr. App R 411 was a case where the mistake identified in the section 142 application was a failure by the bench to listen to a tape of an interview before a......
  • Nkromah v Willesden Magistrates' Court
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 17 December 2013
    ...on recent case law that had confirmed the power gave them a broad discretion to re-open proceedings in the interests of justice ( R v Croydon Youth Court 1997 2 Cr App R 411, Zykin v Crown Prosecution Service [2009] EWHC 1469 Admin), but only to rectify a mistake or something akin to a mist......
  • Houston v Director of Public Prosecutions
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 10 November 2015
    ...court it would be in the interests of justice that the case should be heard again". 35 In Regina v Croydon Youth Court, ex parte DPP [1997] 2 Cr.App.R 411, the Divisional Court considered the refusal of the Youth Court to allow a Defendant to reopen proceedings in order to set aside his ear......
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