R v Manchester City Stipendiary Magistrate, ex parte Snelson

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1977
Year1977
CourtDivisional Court
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  • Hilroy Humphreys Claimant v Attorney General of Antigua and Barbuda Defendant. [ECSC]
    • Antigua and Barbuda
    • High Court (Antigua)
    • 21 December 2006
    ...committal proceedings cannot give rise to a plea of autre fois acquit (per Lord Widgery CJ in R v MANCHESTER CITY STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATE [1977] 1 WLR 911 at 912. In Tonner (1985) 1 WLR 344 the Court of Appeal was called to determine when a criminal trial commenced. The Court followed the r......
  • Marcus Bisram v The Director of Public Prosecutions
    • Caribbean Community
    • Caribbean Court of Justice
    • 15 March 2022
    ...ex p Klisiak [1981] 2 All ER 129; R v Hussain ex p DPP (1965) 8 WIR 65 (GY); R v Jones (2007) 72 WIR 1 (BS SC); R v Manchester City Stipendiary Magistrate ex p Snelson [1978] 2 All ER 62; Roodal v The State (Trinidad and Tobago CA, 17 July 2002); Roodal v State of Trinidad and Tobago [......
  • Humphreys v Attorney General of Antigua and Barbuda
    • Antigua and Barbuda
    • High Court (Antigua)
    • 21 December 2006
    ...proceedings cannot give rise to a plea of autre fois acquit (per Lord Widgery, C.J. in R. v. Manchester City Stipendiary Magistrate [1977] 1 W.L.R. 911 at 912. In Tonner [1985] 1 W.L.R. 344 the Court of Appeal was called to determine when a criminal trial commenced. The Court followed the r......
  • R (Redgrave) v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 January 2003
    ...Such is the Attorney-General's contention and it seems to me unanswerable. An authority in point is R v Manchester City Stipendiary Magistrate ex p Snelson [1977] 1 WLR 911. The challenge there was to the institution of fresh committal proceedings against the applicant following his dischar......
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