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19 Mar 2010, 3:05 am by sally
Regina v W Court of Appeal, Criminal Division “Whether a defendant was acting dishonestly was a matter for the jury after a correct direction from the trial judge. [read post]
15 Jul 2009, 2:52 am
Regina v Knaggs [2009] EWCA Crim 1363; [2009] WLR (D) 239 “A defendant who had pleaded guilty to an offence without any challenge to the facts by way of a Newton hearing was not thereby debarred, as a matter of law, from challenging the prosecution evidence for the purposes of a confiscation hearing. [read post]
6 Feb 2012, 2:52 am by sally
Regina v Armstrong [2012] EWCA Crim 83; [2012] WLR (D) 22 “If in the military courts a judge did not approve of a course that a military prosecutor intended to take the proper course for the judge was to ask for the matter to be referred either to the Director of Service Prosecutions or to the Attorney General, as might be appropriate.” WLR Daily, 1st February 2012 Source: www.iclr.co.uk [read post]
4 Jan 2011, 1:59 am by sally
Regina v Twaite [2010] EWCA Crim 2973; [2010] WLR (D) 342 “Majority verdicts at a hearing before a Courts Martial were not, as a matter of principle, on that account alone to be regarded as blemished by unfairness or uncertainty or lack of safety. [read post]
7 Apr 2009, 1:37 am
Regina (A) v Director of Establishments of the Security Service Court of Appeal “The Administrative Court did not have jurisdiction to entertain a claim that a public authority proposed to act in a way incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights where the matters brought up were within the purview of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal. [read post]
5 Mar 2010, 2:16 am by traceydennis
Regina v Lancaster [2010] EWCA Crim 370; [2010] WLR (D) 63 “Where a person was charged with an offence of falsifying a document made or required for an accounting purpose, by omitting a material particular from that document, contrary to s 17 of the Theft Act 1968, the omitted particular was to be regarded as material if it had the effect that the document was liable to mislead in a way which was significant, or in a way which mattered. [read post]
3 Apr 2012, 2:25 am by sally
Regina v Newell [2012] EWCA Crim 650; [2012] WLR (D) 105 “A statement made on a plea and case management hearing form by the defendant’s counsel, although admissible in principle as a matter of law, should not, in the exercise of the court’s discretion under section 78 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (‘PACE’), be admitted in evidence against the defendant at trial, provided that the case had been conducted in accordance with the letter and… [read post]
28 Jun 2010, 2:22 am by traceydennis
Regina v Brewster  [2010] EWCA Crim 1194; [2010] WLR (D) 159 “Where a party sought to admit evidence of a witness’s bad character which bore only indirectly on his credibility, and that credibility was a matter in issue in the proceedings and of substantial importance in the context of the case as a whole, such evidence was only admissible pursuant to s 100(1)(b) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 as evidence of substantial probative value on the issue of… [read post]
25 Jul 2011, 3:22 am by tracey
Regina v F(S) [2011] EWCA Crim 1844;  [2011] WLR (D)  242 “An application to stay criminal proceedings for abuse of process on grounds of delay and a submission of ‘no case to answer’ were two distinct matters which had to receive distinct and separate consideration. [read post]
11 Jan 2010, 2:56 am by sally
Regina (Lewis) v Coroner for Mid and North Division of Shropshire and Another Court of Appeal “There was only a power, but not a duty, on a coroner to leave possibly, but not probably causative matters to the jury. [read post]
5 Aug 2008, 8:23 am
Regina (A) v Director of Establishments of the Security Service Queen’s Bench Division “The Investigatory Powers Tribunal did not have exclusive jurisdiction where a claim that a public authority proposed to act in a way incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights brought up matters within its purview. [read post]
19 Jul 2012, 4:54 am by tracey
Regina (Modhej and another) v Secretary of State for Justice: [2012] EWCA Civ 957;  [2012] WLR (D)  210 “Where the Court of Appeal allowed an appeal against sentence at a time by which, subsequent to the original passing of sentence, the law had changed in relation to release on licence, it was not the case that reliance could be placed on the particularities of such date in order to claim that it was the later provisions which governed matters… [read post]
4 Nov 2010, 2:56 am by sally
Regina v Williams (Jason John) [2010] EWCA Crim 2552; [2010] WLR (D) 274 “As a matter of statutory construction, fault or other blameworthy conduct on the part of the defendant was not required to establish that he was guilty of an offence under s 3ZB of the Road Traffic Act 1988 of causing the death of another person by driving while unlicensed, disqualified or uninsured; and it was sufficient that the driving was a cause of the death, provided that it was a more than… [read post]
20 Jan 2011, 1:21 am by sally
Whether, and in what circumstances, a public interest exception should be recognised to the strict application of those principles in the disciplinary context was a matter for Parliament not the courts. [read post]
18 Nov 2008, 10:32 am
Regina (Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust) v Thurrock Thames Gateway Development Corporation Court of Appeal “Where a party with limited means applied for a protective costs order to bring a matter of public importance before the court, and that party was represented by means of a conditional fee agreement, the agreed success fee was relevant to the amount of the cap on the costs order and consequently was to be disclosed to the court. [read post]
11 May 2010, 2:38 am by traceydennis
Regina (Public and Commercial Services Union) v Minister for the Civil Service [2010] EWHC 1027 (Admin); [2010] WLR (D) 117 “S 2(3) of the Superannuation Act 1972 as amended conferred protection in relation to all entitlements in the principal civil service pension scheme (‘PCSPS’) and the civil service compensation scheme (‘CSCS’) referable to length of service and contributions paid, whether they constituted legal entitlements in the full sense or… [read post]
28 Jan 2011, 3:12 am by traceydennis
Regina (Hope and Glory Public House Ltd) v City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court (Westminster City Council intervening) [2011] EWCA Civ 31; [2011] WLR (D) 20 “Although an appeal to a magistrates’ court from the decision of a local authority’s licensing committee was a full rehearing on all the evidence the committee’s decision was a relevant matter to be taken into consideration and should only be reversed if the judge was satisfied that the original… [read post]
3 Nov 2011, 3:26 am by sally
Regina (Guardian News and Media Ltd) v City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court; Guardian News and Media Ltd v Government of the United States of America and another [2011] EWCA Civ 1188; [2011] WLR (D) 309 “The Court of Appeal had jurisdiction to hear a proposed appeal from a decision of a court conducting extradition proceedings (which were criminal in nature), where that decision related to a matter which was wholly collateral to the extradition proceedings themselves,… [read post]
31 May 2011, 4:22 am by sally
Regina (HRH Sultan of Pahang) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2011] EWCA Civ 616; [2011] WLR (D) 183 “The question of who was a head of state such as to attract state immunity was a matter for the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and not for the court. [read post]