R v Doherty (Note)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeTHE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
Judgment Date29 July 1971
Judgment citation (vLex)[1971] EWCA Crim J0729-2
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Docket NumberNo. 1331 B 71
Date29 July 1971

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  • R v Dixon (Leon)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 13 May 1999
    ...have been misinformed refuses to extend time leaving the Applicant without the recourse available under Section 31(3) . 16 The Cases 17 In DOHERTY (1971) 55 Cr App R 548 the Applicant applied for leave to appeal against conviction and sentence. He abandoned his application for leave to appe......
  • R v Charles (Jerome) (Leave to Appeal); R v Tucker (Lee Nigel)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 29 January 2001
    ...with the views of the single judge. 107 42. In Dixon the Court cited the case of Doherty: 108 "In Doherty (1971) 55 Cr.App.R. 548, [1971] 1 W.L.R. 1454 the applicant applied for leave to appeal against conviction and sentence. He abandoned his application for leave to appeal against convic......
  • R v Francis Ian Williams
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 22 October 2010
    ...the position where an application is made to extend the time permission to appeal. We have considered the decisions of this court in R v Doherty (1971) 55 Cr App R 548, and in R v John Sullivan (1972) 56 Cr App R 541. It seems to us the following principle may be distilled from the authorit......
  • R v James Alistair McKinsley
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 6 May 2004
    ...Court has said on many occasions over a substantial period of years that the time limits are there to be observed. As long ago as 1971 in R v Doherty 55 Cr App R 548 the Lord Chief Justice observed this: "The Court would wish to say that in general principle the power to extend time…should ......
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