R v West London Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate, ex parte Klahn

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1979
Date1979
CourtDivisional Court
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35 cases
  • Sookoonsingh v Summary Ct
    • Cayman Islands
    • Grand Court (Cayman Islands)
    • 21 March 2006
    ...340; [1994] 1 All E.R. 44; (1994), 99 Cr. App. R. 170, distinguished. (13) R. v. West London Metrop. Stip. Magistrate, ex p. Klahn, [1979] 1 W.L.R. 933; [1979] 2 All E.R. 221; [1979] Crim. L.R. 393, followed. (14) R. v. Willesden JJ., ex p. ClemmingsUNK(1987), 87 Cr. App. R. 280, referred t......
  • R (Green) v City of Westminster Magistrates' Court
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 5 December 2007
    ...as one for decision by anyone but herself. She directed herself in accordance with R v West London Metropolitan Magistrate ex p Klahn [1979] 1 WLR 933 that she must exercise her own discretion. She referred to the decisions on the application for judicial review and of the GPCC, but only as......
  • Mohamed Lahrie Mohamed & Shehara Lahrie v Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Waltham Forest
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 7 May 2020
    ...22 The issuing of a summons by a Magistrates' Court has been considered in a number of authorities. In R v West London Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate ex parte Klahn [1979] 1 WLR 933 at 935H Lord Widgery CJ noted that “the duty of a magistrate in considering an application for the issu......
  • R Martin Kay v Scan-Thors (UK) Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 23 May 2018
    ...ex parte Hill [1983] 1 AC 328). 21 In the much-quoted case of R v West London Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate, ex parte Klahn [1979] WLR 933, Lord Widgery CJ, giving the judgment of the court, said at 935F – 936E: “According to Stone's Justices' Manual, application for the issue of a su......
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3 books & journal articles
  • Arresting Developments? Restricting the Enforcement of the UK's Universal Jurisdiction Provisions
    • United Kingdom
    • The Modern Law Review No. 75-3, May 2012
    • 1 May 2012
    ...of Offences Act 1985,s 7(4).28 Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980, s 1.29 RvWest London Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrates(Ex par te Klahn) [1979] 1WLR 933, 932;R (onthe application of Stephen Green) vThe City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court [2007] EWHC 2785(Admin).Arresting Developments?© 20......
  • When to Query Summons as Vexatious
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 63-5, October 1999
    • 1 October 1999
    ...a summons to make any inquiryon hisowninto the facts on which the summons is based'. In RvWLondonMagistrates,ex pKlahn[1979] 1 WLR 933, there are, however,statements on which the applicants sought to rely. There, a summonswas obtained from a magistrate alleging that a solicitorwhohad madean......
  • When to Query Summons as Vexatious
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 63-5, October 1999
    • 1 October 1999
    ...a summons to make any inquiryon hisowninto the facts on which the summons is based'. In RvWLondonMagistrates,ex pKlahn[1979] 1 WLR 933, there are, however,statements on which the applicants sought to rely. There, a summonswas obtained from a magistrate alleging that a solicitorwhohad madean......

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