The defendants appealed convictions for having staged motor accidents to support false insurance claims. They said that the insurance companies had contributed to the costs of the investigation by the police.
Held: It might have been most unwise and possibly unlawful for the police to solicit contributions to their costs from the victims of crime, but they had been found to have acted nevertheless in good faith. The conditions for a stay had not been met. The inadvertent admission of evidence as to one defendant’s previous convictions had not prejudiced the jury.
Judges:
Gage LJ, Curtis J, Poole J
Citations:
[2005] EWCA Crim 1366, Times 16-Jun-2005
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Citing:
Cited – Regina v Horseferry Road Magistrates’ Court, ex Parte Bennett (No 1) HL 24-Jun-1993
The defendant had been brought to the UK in a manner which was in breach of extradition law. He had, in effect, been kidnapped by the authorities.
Held: The High Court may look at how an accused person was brought within the jurisdiction when . .
Cited – Attorney-General’s Reference (No 2 of 2001) HL 11-Dec-2003
The house was asked whether it might be correct to stay criminal proceedings as an abuse where for delay. The defendants were prisoners in a prison riot in 1998. The case only came on for trial in 2001, when they submitted that the delay was an . .
Cited – Regina v Mullen CACD 4-Feb-1999
British authorities, in disregard of available extradition procedures, initiated and procured the unlawful deportation of the appellant from Zimbabwe to England. The appellant was charged and tried for conspiracy to cause explosions likely to . .
Cited – Regina v Weaver and Weaver 1967
Where some prejudice to the defendant or some matter which is prejudicial to the defendant has been admitted in evidence through inadvertence, the jury may be discharged, but need not always be according to the circumstances. . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Crime, Police
Updated: 30 June 2022; Ref: scu.225486