Richards v The Queen

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date19 October 1992
Date19 October 1992
CourtPrivy Council
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26 cases
  • Tapper el al v Director of Public Prosecutions el al
    • Jamaica
    • Supreme Court (Jamaica)
    • 8 February 1999
    ...Magistrate's Court does not constitute a breach of established procedure, he submitted. Reliance was placed on R. v. Lloydell Richards [1993] A.C. 217 and R. v. Louis Chen 9 J.L.R. 290. 100 As regards legitimate expectations, he submitted that this concept is inextricably bound up with the ......
  • Cleary v DPP
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 23 November 2011
    ...v O'SHEA 1982 IR 384 STATE (TYNAN) v KEANE 1968 IR 348 S (D) v JUDGES OF THE CIRCUIT COURT & ANOR 2008 4 IR 379 RICHARDS v THE QUEEN 1993 AC 217 CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT 1993 S4 SUMMARY JURISDICTION ACT 1857 S2 CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACT 1967 S1(A) CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT 1999 S9 CRIMINAL PROCEDURE......
  • R v Abdulla Ahmed Ali and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 19 May 2011
    ...decided that the plea of autrefois convict could be relied on even if a defendant had not been sentenced. However in Richards v The Queen [1993] AC 217, the Privy Council said that these two cases had been wrongly decided. (ii) The issues 32 The issues before us on whether the appellants co......
  • R v Michael Edwin Reynolds
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 8 March 2007
    ...11 One solution in such a case might be to recharge the offender. Because he has not been punished, he cannot plead autrefois convict: see Richards v R [1993] AC 217. But that would be a cumbersome way to put right what could be considered a mere technicality, if the ultimate sentence is ot......
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2 books & journal articles
  • A Theoretical Model for Correctional Education in the U.S.A.
    • United Kingdom
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles No. 66-2, April 1993
    • 1 April 1993
    ...L.L.M.The UniversityofSheffield Legal Correspondentofthe Police JournalRECENT JUDICIAL DECISIONSDOUBLE JEOPARDYRichards v. The Queen[1992] 3 W.L.R. 928 Privy CouncilThe appellant had been arraigned in the Home Circuit Court in Kingston,Jamaica, chargedwith murder. He pleaded guilty to mansl......
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    • United Kingdom
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles No. 66-2, April 1993
    • 1 April 1993
    ...L.L.M.The UniversityofSheffield Legal Correspondentofthe Police JournalRECENT JUDICIAL DECISIONSDOUBLE JEOPARDYRichards v. The Queen[1992] 3 W.L.R. 928 Privy CouncilThe appellant had been arraigned in the Home Circuit Court in Kingston,Jamaica, chargedwithmurder. He pleaded guilty to mansla......

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