R v Gaskin (John Thomas)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeMR. JUSTICE BELDAM
Judgment Date19 February 1985
Judgment citation (vLex)[1985] EWCA Crim J0219-9
Docket NumberNo. 4258/C/84
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Date19 February 1985

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  • R v Standing and Ealand (1986)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 25 June 1986
    ...that the judgment in Oakes stated the powers of the Court under section 53(2) in terms which are substantially too narrow. 32 Next, in R. v. Gaskin (1985) 7 Cr. App. R. (S) 28 the appellant had, in company with two others, forced their way into the home of an old man and tried to extort his......
  • R v Fairhurst
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 16 October 1986
    ...sentences of under two years duration, whether concurrent or consecutive, may properly be imposed in respect of the other offences (see Gaskin (1985) 7 Cr. App. R. (S) 28); (5) where an offender is aged under 15 and thus ineligible for youth custody, a detention sentence of less than two ye......
  • Lucifucatino Zinga
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 29 April 1997
    ...to a number of earlier cases which serve in different ways to illuminate this hitherto vexed topic. The court has been referred to R v Gaskin 7 Cr.App.R (S) 28, and to the very well recognised observations of Lord Lane, Chief Justice, in Fairhurst 84 Cr App R 19. In the course of giving jud......
  • Michael Paul Horrocks
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 30 January 1986
    ...has been imposed that has been for an offence or offences of greater gravity than those with which the court is here concerned -see, e.g., R. v. Gaskin, 19th February 1985, referred to in the Bulletin of the Judicial Studies Board, No. 2 of 1985 at page 6, where the detention was for 2 year......
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