R v Szmyt (Tomasz)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeMR JUSTICE JACK
Judgment Date06 July 2009
Neutral Citation[2009] EWCA Crim 1507
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Docket NumberNo: 200806708/b3
Date06 July 2009

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  • PP v Mas Swan bin Adnan
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 14 Mayo 2012
    ...169 ER 766 (refd) R v Magdalen Genevieve Wolin [2006] 1 Cr App R (S) 133 (refd) R v Shivpuri [1987] AC 1 (refd) R v Tomasz Szmyt [2010] 1 Cr App R (S) 69 (refd) Civil Defence Act (Cap 42, 2001 Rev Ed) s 54 (1) Criminal Procedure Code (Cap 68, 1985 Rev Ed) s 163 (1) Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap ......
  • Public Prosecutor v Mas Swan bin Adnan and another appeal
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 14 Mayo 2012
    ...This situation is not common, but it is not without precedent in other jurisdictions. For instance, in Regina v Tomasz Szmyt [2010] 1 Cr App R (S) 69 (“Tomasz Szmyt”), the appellant was found to have in his possession, inter alia, what he thought were 1,998 ecstasy tablets, but which were i......
  • Hksar v Li Oi Yee
    • Hong Kong
    • Court of Appeal (Hong Kong)
    • 2 Noviembre 2011
    ...consequences, as would have been the case if the same quantity of heroin had been of average strength.” 11. In R v Tomasz Szmyt [2010] 1 Cr App R (S) 69 six years’ imprisonment for attempting to import “ecstasy” was reduced to a sentence of 4 ½ years imprisonment where the tablets imported ......
  • Hksar v Cheng Ling Ling
    • Hong Kong
    • Court of Appeal (Hong Kong)
    • 6 Noviembre 2018
    ...would have believed that she was trafficking in drugs with a narcotic content similar to the drugs in Count 1. See R v Szmyt [2010] 1 Cr App R (S) 69, cited with approval in Li Oi Yee at paragraph 11, where the court presumed that the appellant believed he was importing ecstasy tablets of “......

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