R v Offen (No 2)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date2000
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
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  • R (Lichniak) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 25 November 2002
    ...to present no danger to the public. 10 In support of his argument Mr Fitzgerald relied heavily on the decision of the Court of Appeal in R v Offen [2001] 1 WLR 253. That case concerned section 2 of the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997, which required a life sentence to be imposed on a person con......
  • R v Drew (Anthony James)
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 8 May 2003
    ...problem which confronted the Court of Appeal (Lord Woolf CJ, Steel and Richards JJ), after the Human Rights Act 1998 came into force, in R v Offen [2001] 1 WLR 253. The court neatly resolved the problem by holding (page 272, paragraph 79): "It therefore can be assumed the section was not in......
  • R v Richards (Darrell) (No.1)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 12 December 2002
    ... ... 12 This passage was considered in Offen [2001] 1 Cr. App. R. 372 ... The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Woolf, said at [79]: "Before leaving Buckland , and turning to the decision in Offen, we should point out that we regard it as a striking feature of the reasoning in Buckland , as in the case of Kelly , that the Court ... ...
  • R v Kelly (Edward) (No.2)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 16 July 2001
    ...Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000). All those appeals have arisen largely because of the judgment of this court, Lord Woolf CJ, in the case of Offen [2001] 1 Cr App R 372. The basis for the appeals is that in that case this court adopted a different analysis of the requirements of section 2 from......
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