Scopelight Ltd v Chief Constable of Northumbria Police Force
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Civil Division) |
| Judgment Date | 05 November 2009 |
| Neutral Citation | [2009] EWCA Civ 1156 |
| Date | 05 November 2009 |
Court of Appeal
Before Lord Justice Ward, Lord Justice Wilson and Lord Justice Leveson
Scopelight Ltd and Others
and
Chief Constable of Northumbria Police and Another
Police can keep seized property pending private prosecution
The police could retain property they seized after the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to prosecute but a private prosecution was being contemplated or taking place.
The Court of Appeal so stated when allowing the appeal of the defendants, the Chief Constable of Northumbria and the Federation against Copyright Theft, from a decision on a preliminary issue made by Mrs Justice SharpUNK ([2009] 2 Cr App R 365) at the commencement of civil proceedings in whic h the claimants, Scopelight Ltd, its directors, Anton Benjamin Vickerman and Kelly-Ann Vickerman, owners of a website called SurfTheChannel.com, sought to recover property including computers, servers, memory sticks and mobile phones, seized by the police...
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13 cases
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Police Federation and Others v Commissioner of The Independent Commission of Investigations and Attorney General
...an individual's right to bring a private prosecution. 60 Counsel also relied in his submissions on Scopelight Limited and others v. Chief Constable of Northumbria Police Force and another [2010] Q.B. 438 to further support the proposition that there exists a right by private citizens to ini......
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Steadroy C. O. Benjamin Appellant v [1] The Commissoner of Police [2] Attorney General of Antigua and Barbuda Respondents [ECSC]
...Court [2005] 1 W.L.R. 1987, Ewing v Davis [2007] 1 W.L.R. 3223. 28 Cap. 330, Revised Laws of Antigua and Barbuda 1992. 29 [2009] EWCA Civ. 1156 30 See section 88(2) of the Constitution. 31 See section 88(4) of the Constitution. 32 [1978] A.C. 435 . 33 At pages 497-498. 34 2 nd Ed., Chapter......
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Newcastle United Football Company Ltd v Commissioners for HM Revenue & Customs
...beyond the police purposes for which the powers given by section 19 and 20 were conferred by Parliament. 54 In R (Scopelight) v Chief Constable of Northumbria [2009] EWCA Civ 1156; [2010] QB 438, the issue concerned the power of the police to provide seized material to a private prosecutor ......
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The Queen (on the application of Hasan Akarcay) v Chief Constable of the West Yorkshire Police Secretary of State for the Home Department (Interested Party) National Crime Agency (Interested Party)
...in accordance with principles reflected in, amongst other cases, Marcel v Commissioner of Police [1992] Ch 225, Scopelight v Chief Constable of Northumbria [2010] QB 438 and Woolgar v Chief Constable of Sussex [2000] 1 WLR 25, the Police were entitled to provide information to the Northern ......
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