R v McCann
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judge | LORD JUSTICE ROSKILL |
| Judgment Date | 21 December 1971 |
| Neutral Citation | [1971] EWCA Crim J1221-11 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1971] EWCA Crim J1221-14 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) |
| Docket Number | No. 1843/B/71 |
| Date | 21 December 1971 |
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R v Looseley
...LR 45, R v Burnett [1973] Crim LR 748 and R v Ameer [1977] Crim LR 104. Entrapment was regarded as a mitigating factor in, for instance, R v McCann (1971) 56 Cr App R 8 In R v Sang [1980] AC 402 your Lordships' House affirmed the Court of Appeal decisions of R v McEvilly (1973) 60 Cr Ap......
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R v Sang
...next to the trilogy of cases in which this Court has had recently to consider the position of informers, Birtles (1969) 53 Cr.App.R. 469, McCann (1972) 56 Cr.App.R. 359, and McEvilly (1974) 60 Cr.App.R. 151. It is important to observe that in each of these three cases the court was concerne......
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R v Arnough
...nevertheless, to have a hope as regards reduction of sentence. The authorities to which he referred were the Birtles case (supra) and R. v McCann [1972] 56 Cr. App. R. 359. In both of these cases sentences were reduced on the ground that there was a possibility that the appellant in each ca......
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R v McEvilly
...or in contemplation is, in the view of this Court, quite unreal. 23 This problem arose in a different form in R. v. McCann (1971) 56 Criminal Appeal Reports, 359, where, following the earlier judgment of Lord Parker, the then Lord Chief Justice, in R. v. Birtles (1969) 53 Criminal Appeal Re......