Williams v Summerfield
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1972 |
| Year | 1972 |
| Court | Divisional Court |
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R v Secretary of State for the Home Department and Another, ex parte Fininvest SpA and Others
...allegedly employed in the fraud. The position here could hardly be more different from that under consideration by Lord Widgery CJ in Williams v Summerfield [1972] 2QB 512 at 518, when, with reference to section 7 of the Bankers' Books Evidence Act 1879, he suggested that the period of disc......
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MCML Ltd (Formerly ED&F Man Capital Markets Ltd) v Southwark Crown Court
...must give the most mature and careful consideration to all the facts of the case (see amongst many instances Williams v Somerfield [1972] 2 QB 512 at 518 and Wood v North of England Magistrates' Court 2 [2009] EWHC (Admin) 3614 per Moses LJ at paragraph 29).” 150 The Court also emphasised......
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R (S and Others) v Chief Constable of the British Transport Police and another
...judges should be scrupulous in discharging that responsibility". 40 This echoed the approach of Lord Widgery CJ in Williams v Somerfield [1972] 2 QB 512, at 519 who observed that: "…generations of justices have, or I would hope have, been brought up to recognise that the issue of a search ......
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Divisional Court
...indeed they have always done in relation to the samesituation under s 7 of the Bankers' Books Evidence Act 1879: cf WilliamsvSummerfield[1972]2 QB 512 with R v Maidstone CC, ex pWaitt[1988]Crim LR 384. In the present case, Bingham U spoke at length upon thedifficulty of balancing the two pu......
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The constitutional invalidity of warrantless drugs searches in South Africa
...and have enjoined magistrates to be mindful of their important responsibil-ities in this context. Thus in Williams vSummerfield [1972] 2 QB 512, for example, LordWidgery CJ commented that, ‘generations of justices have, or I would hope have beenbrought up to recognise that the issue of a se......