Sir Igor Judge said: ‘No trial Judge should exercise his discretion in a way in which he personally believes may be unreasonable. That is not to say that he will necessarily find every such decision easy. But the mere fact that the Judge could reasonably have reached the opposite conclusion to the one he reached, and that he acknowledges that there were valid arguments that might have caused him to do so, does not begin to provide a basis for a successful appeal.’
Judges:
Sir Igor Judge
Citations:
(2008) EWCA Crim 1144
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – RCPO v C CACD 5-Feb-2010
The prosecutor appealed against a stay of the prosecution as an abuse of process. It was alleged that the defendant solicitor had permitted a relation of his partner to launder the proceeds of a tax fraud. The principal defendant had been . .
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Criminal Practice
Updated: 18 May 2022; Ref: scu.396628