R v Islam

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeLord Justice Toulson
Judgment Date31 July 2008
Neutral Citation[2008] EWCA Crim 1740
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Docket NumberCase No: 200701190 C2
Date31 July 2008

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  • R v Islam
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • June 10, 2009
    ...and Customs Prosecutions Office) Respondent: Cheryl Drew Abdul Gofur (Instructed by Crescent & Co) SESSION 2008-09 on appeal from: [2008] EWCA Crim 1740 OPINIONS OF THE LORDS OF APPEAL FOR JUDGMENT IN THE CAUSE LORD HOPE OF CRAIGHEAD My Lords, 1 This case raises a short but important point ......
  • R. v. Islam, [2009] N.R. Uned. 196
    • Canada
    • June 10, 2009
    ...be bought and sold had no market value: para. 17. The Court of Appeal regarded itself as bound by that decision in the present case: [2008] EWCA Crim 1740. But I agree with Toulson, L.J., that in Hussain the Court of Appeal read too much into what Lord Bingham, C.J., said in Dore . This is ......
  • R v Moss
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • October 15, 2008
    ...taken as meaning value in a lawful market. The authorities in this area were considered recently by this court in the case of Islam [2008] EWCA Crim 1740, in which the court itself to be bound by Hussain but certified that there was an issue fit for consideration by the House of Lords. 6 Th......
  • Kaushikial GOR v R
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • January 20, 2017
    ... ... 56 Before the judge the appellant relied upon the decision of the House of Lords in Islam [2009] 1 AC 1076 ... In that case it was decided that the market value, in reality, of a consignment of heroin should enter into the benefit calculation and that it was wrong to assign a nil value to it because there was no lawful market in heroin ... 57 The judge's ... ...

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