R v Dempsey

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeTHE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Judgment Date15 November 1985
Judgment citation (vLex)[1985] EWCA Crim J1115-1
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Docket NumberNos. 2686/C/85 and 2687/C/85
Date15 November 1985

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  • R v Maginnis
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • March 5, 1987
    ...between two earlier decisions of that court. These two decisions were Reg. v. Delgado [1984] 1 W.L.R. 89 and Reg. v. Dempsey The Times, 22 November 1985, The Times, 22 November 1985. In Reg. v. Delgado the accused had been a passenger in a minicab which was stopped by police because it was ......
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    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
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  • Formula One Autocentres Ltd v Birmingham City Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • November 27, 1998
    ...Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal was said to be in conflict, one with the other. Those cases were R v Delgado [1984] 1 WLR 89 and R v Dempsey (1985) 82 Cr App R 291. 23 In Delgado, the question arising was whether a person who had been entrusted with a parcel of cannabis for safe ke......
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  • Recent Judicial Decisions
    • United Kingdom
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles No. 75-4, November 2002
    • November 1, 2002
    ...to take custody of it. The defendant mustprove that this was hislher intention at the time of takingpossession; see RvDempsey (1985) 82 Cr App R 291.In Dempsey the Court of Appeal held that there was nosupply by the possessor of the drug to the custodier on the factsof that particular case.......

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