Category: indictments

R v Moulden – WLR Daily

Posted November 13th, 2008 in indictments, law reports, proceeds of crime, sentencing by sally

R v Moulden [2008] EWCA Crim 2561; [2008] WLR (D) 352

“In s 6(2)(a) of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, the words ‘proceedings before the Crown Court’ meant proceedings under a single indictment. The expression did not cover everything, in whatever form, before the court on the date sentence was to be imposed.”

WLR Daily, 12th November 2008

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‘Illiterate’ worker angers judge – BBC News

Posted August 12th, 2008 in indictments, news by sally

“An angry judge has branded a prosecution worker an ‘illiterate idiot’ after spotting several spelling mistakes in an indictment.”

Full story

BBC News, 12th August 2008

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Regina v Hodgson; Regina v Pollin – Times Law Reports

Posted April 30th, 2008 in indictments, law reports, murder by sally

Regina v Hodgson; Regina v Pollin

Court of Appeal

“Where appellants had originally been charged with attempted murder but after discussion agreed to admit a lesser charge, the fact that ‘intent’ was omitted from the indictment was not a fatal flaw.”

The Times, 30th April 2008

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Regina v Plant – Times Law Reports

Posted April 21st, 2008 in criminal procedure, indictments, law reports by sally

Regina v Plant

Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)

“Where a summary offence was tried with an indictable offence in the crown court but there was no case to answer on the indictable offence, the summary offence did not have to be withdrawn from the jury and retried before justices.”

The Times, 21st April 2008

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Regina v Marchese – Times Law Reports

Posted March 6th, 2008 in indictments, law reports by sally

Regina v Marchese

Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)

“The fact that a count in an indictment was duplicitous would not lead to the quashing of a conviction if, on the facts, the duplicity had not caused any injustice to the defendant. ”

The Times, 6th March 2008

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R v Clarke; R v McDaid – WLR Daily

Posted February 7th, 2008 in indictments, law reports by sally

R v Clarke; R v McDaid [2008] UKHL 8; [2008] WLR (D) 31

“Where for most of a criminal trial there had been no signed indictment the proceedings had been invalid.”

WLR Daily, 6th February 2008

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Regins v Clarke Regina v McDaid – Times Law Reports

Posted February 7th, 2008 in indictments, law reports by sally

Regina v Clarke; Regina v McDaid

House of Lords

“Where there had been no signed indictment during most of a criminal trial, the proceedings were invalid.”

The Times, 7th February 2008

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Practice Direction (Amendment No 17 to Consolidated Criminal Practice Direction: Arraignment In Two-stage Trials) – WLR Daily

Posted December 4th, 2007 in criminal procedure, indictments, practice directions by sally

Practice Direction (Amendment No 17 to Consolidated Criminal Practice Direction: Arraignment In Two-stage Trials)
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The text of a new Pt IV.34 on Settling the Indictment, which was to be substituted for the existing Pt IV.34 on Settling the Indictment, in Practice Direction (Criminal Proceedings: Consolidation) [2002] 1 WLR 2870 (‘the consolidated criminal practice direction’) was set out. The amendment was to take effect on 3 December 2007.”

WLR Daily, 3rd December 2007

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R (El-Kurd) v. Sakavickas and another – WLR Daily

Posted July 30th, 2007 in indictments, jury directions, law reports, proceeds of crime by sally

R (El-Kurd) v. Sakavickas and another; R v. Rana Singh [2007] EWCA Crim 1888

“Where a judge had misdirected a jury owing to a defect in the indictment and the misdirection went to the heart of the issue between the defendant and the Crown, the conviction would be unsafe even if the indictment could have been amended so that the facts relied on would amount to the offence charged, and even where the case against the defendant was very strong.”

WLR Daily, 26th July 2007

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