R v Kennedy

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeLORD JUSTICE GLIDEWELL
Judgment Date24 October 1988
Judgment citation (vLex)[1988] EWCA Crim J1024-6
Date24 October 1988
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Docket NumberNo. 2836/E3/88

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  • R v Avis and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 16 December 1997
    ...of which the defendant pleaded guilty: R v Cresswell (1986) 8 Cr App R(S) 29, in which a sentence of 4 years' imprisonment was upheld. R v Kennedy (1988) 10 Cr App R(S) 398 in which a sentence of 3 years' imprisonment was upheld. R v Smith (1989) 11 Cr App R(S) 55 in which a 2 year concurre......
  • R v Ashman
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 9 August 1996
    ...the court indicated that the time had come for a review of the authorities so that consideration might be given to the earlier decision in R v Kennedy (1988) 10 Cr App R(S) 398. In that case Glidewell LJ, giving the judgment of the court, said: "To mind a shotgun which has been sawn off in ......
  • R v Ecclestone
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • Invalid date
  • R v John Hind
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 6 April 1995
    ... ... 10 He acknowledges realistically that there have been recent authorities in which more substantial sentences have been upheld, notably Kennedy 10 Cr.App.R(S) 398, where Glidewell LJ, in giving the judgment of the court, observed, appropriately in the view of this Court: "A sawn-off shotgun is a terrible weapon and it has only one purpose, to wound if not to kill human beings, or at least to terrorise human beings. It has no ... ...
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