R v Derby Crown Court, ex parte Brooks

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1984
Year1984
CourtDivisional Court

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57 cases
  • Maycock et Al v Commissioner of Police
    • Bahamas
    • Supreme Court (Bahamas)
    • 28 April 1995
    ...the conduct of the prosecution has been such as to prevent a fair trial of the accused. In R v. Derby Crown Court, Ex parte Brooks 80 Cr App Rep 164, Sir Roger Ormrod said, at pp 168-169: ‘The power to stop a prosecution arises only when it is an abuse of a process of the court. It may be ......
  • Tapper el al v Director of Public Prosecutions el al
    • Jamaica
    • Supreme Court (Jamaica)
    • 8 February 1999
    ...in the procedure and deprives the applicants not only of the procedure but of their legitimate expectation. 92 He relied on R. v. Derby Crown Court Exparte Brooks (1985) 80 Cr. App. R.164; Bennett v. Horseferry Road Magistrate's Court and Another [1993] 3 All E.R. 138; Brooks v. Director of......
  • Dunne v DPP
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 25 April 2002
    ...are founded. We have derived the first of these principles from the judgment of Sir Roger Ormrod in R v Derby Crown Court, Ex p Brooks 80 Cr App R 164, 169 and the second from the judgment of Lord Lane CJ in Attorney General's Reference (No 1 of 1990) [1992] QB 630, 644B-C. The circumstance......
  • DPP v Tonie Jarman
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 10 December 2013
    ...33 The power to stop a prosecution as an abuse of process should only be used "in most exceptional circumstances" (see R v Derby Crown Court ex parte Brooks [1985] 80 Cr App R 164) and only (i) where it would be impossible to give the defendant a fair trial; or (ii) where a stay is necessar......
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5 books & journal articles
  • Divisional Court
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 55-2, May 1991
    • 1 May 1991
    ...in the present case.167 JournalofCriminalLawDELAYIN PROSECUTION AND ABUSE OF PROCESSR v Colwyn JJ, ex pDPPIn R v Derby CC, ex pBrooks (1985) 80 CrAppR 164 (sub nomR v Derby JJ, ex pBrooks (1990) 154 JP 609), the court set outthe principles on which justices may exercise their power to refus......
  • Lost and Destroyed Evidence: The Search for a Principled Approach to Abuse of Process
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 9-3, July 2005
    • 1 July 2005
    ...268.97 R (on the application of Ebrahim) v Feltham Magistrates’ Court; Mouat v DPP [2001] EWHC Admin130, [2001] 1 WLR 1293 at [25].98 (1984) 80 Cr App R 164.99 [1980] AC 402 at 437 (Lord 176 THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EVIDENCE & PROOFLOST AND DESTROYED EVIDENCE: A PRINCIPLED APPROACH TO A......
  • Divisional Court
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 56-2, May 1992
    • 1 May 1992
    ...the evidence, if they think that therehas been an abuse of the process of the court. In R v Derby CC, ex pBrooks (1984) 148lP609; (1985) 80 CrAppR 164, which contains theclassical exposition of the circumstances in which the justices may thusstop aprosecution, the possible grounds are state......
  • Video Games: Some Pitfalls of Video Evidence
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 69-3, June 2005
    • 1 June 2005
    ...have beenerrors in the handling of video evidence. As has been shown, the16 CPIA s. 3(1).17 R v Derby County Council, ex p. Brooks (1985) 80 Cr App R 164. See also R vLatif(Khalid) [1996] 1 WLR 104.18 See R v Howell and Howell [2001] EWCA Crim 3009 and R vParker [2003] EWCACrim 390.The Jour......
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