R v West London Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate, ex parte Klahn

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtDivisional Court
Judgment Date1979
Year1979
Date1979

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37 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......
  • The King (on the application of Peacekeepers Foundation) v Liverpool and Knowsley Magistrates Court
    • United Kingdom
    • King's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 17 June 2025
    ...on a series of other cases involving magistrates, namely R v Brentford Justices, ex p Catlin [1975] QB 455, R v West London Stipendiary Magistrate, ex p Klahn [1979] 1 WLR 933 and R v Gateshead Justices, ex p Tesco Stores Ltd [1981] QB 470. However, none of these cases generate the general ......
  • 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......
  • Andrea Clerk v Gas Safe Register
    • United Kingdom
    • King's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 9 August 2024
    ...which would arise in the context of criminal proceedings given the facts as they were now known and relying on R v West London Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate ex parte Klahn [1979] 1 WLR 933, per Lord Widgery CJ at p 935: “The duty of a magistrate in considering an application for the i......
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1 books & journal articles
  • When to Query Summons as Vexatious
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage 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......