Judges: Treacy LJ , Maguire LJ and O’Hara J Citations: [2022] NICA 42 Links: Bailii Statutes: Explosive Substances Act 1883 2 Jurisdiction: Northern Ireland Cited by: Cited – Campbell, Regina v (41) CANI 30-Jun-2022 . . Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete. Crime Updated: 17 November 2022; Ref: scu.682796
Judges: Treacy LJ , Maguire LJ and O’Hara J Citations: [2022] NICA 41 Links: Bailii Statutes: Explosive Substances Act 1883 2 Jurisdiction: Northern Ireland Citing: Cited – Campbell, Regina v (42) CANI 30-Jun-2022 . . Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete. Criminal Sentencing Updated: 17 November 2022; Ref: scu.682795
The defendant, a shop-keeper, found his shop to be in the middle of serious rioting. His shop had been damaged badly and he suffered looting. Fearing further attacks he stayed in his shop, making 10 petrol bombs for protection. Held: A defendant might set up the statutory defence of showing that he possessed an explosive … Continue reading Attorney-General’s Reference (No 2 of 1983): CACD 3 Feb 1984
The appellant was a young Roman Catholic man married to a Protestant woman, who by reason of his religion was subjected to threats of serious violence in the Protestant area in which he lived and told to move out of the district. The appellant acquired a pistol and live ammunition, maintaining that he did so … Continue reading Regina v Fegan: CANI 1984
Appeal from conviction under section 4 – whether correct to admit evidence of conviction of co-accused. Citations: [2009] EWCA Crim 1944 Links: Bailii Statutes: Explosive Substances Act 1883 4, Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 78 Jurisdiction: England and Wales Crime Updated: 17 June 2022; Ref: scu.377754
parcels containing devices designed to ignite and set fire to address labels – whether devices ‘explosive substances’ Lord Justice Males [2021] EWCA Crim 1215, [2021] 3 WLR 1411, [2021] WLR(D) 449 Bailii, WLRD Explosive Substances Act 1883 England and Wales Crime Updated: 21 December 2021; Ref: scu.666583
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Citations: [2018] EWCA Crim 755 Links: Bailii Statutes: Explosive Substances Act 1883 4 Jurisdiction: England and Wales Criminal sentencing Updated: 19 September 2022; Ref: scu.630966
The Court was asked whether under the 1883 Act: for the purposes of section 4(1) can personal experimentation or own private education, absent some ulterior unlawful purpose, be regarded as a lawful object? The defendant, a young man on the autistic spectrum, had collected explosive materials expressing an interest in them for experiments. The Court … Continue reading Copeland, Regina v: SC 11 Mar 2020
Appeal from conviction under the 1883 Act – that the judge was wrong to hold that the reverse onus placed on a defendant by section 4 in relation to a defence of lawful object was a legal rather than an evidential onus; and that the judge was wrong to hold that it could not be … Continue reading Riding, Regina v: CACD 7 Apr 2009
The several defendants appealed against sentences imposed for acts preparatory to terrorism. Each had been involved to a lesser extent than principals in a larger circle. Held: Leveson LJ said: ‘Although potentially highly relevant both to culpability and potential harm (and, thus, of importance for the purpose of fixing the punitive part of any sentence) … Continue reading Khan and Others v Regina: CACD 16 Apr 2013