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Rating - From: 1992 To: 1992

This page lists 4 cases, and was prepared on 02 April 2018.

 
Regina v Wolverhampton Magistrates Court ex parte Mould [1992] RA 309
1992

Kennedy LJ
Rating, Magistrates
Kennedy LJ said: "the power to commit to prison [for a failure to pay local taxes] is plainly to be used as a weapon to extract payment rather than to punish"
1 Citers


 
Alliance and Leicester Building Society v Ghahremani and others [1992] 32 RVR 198
1992

Hoffmann J
Rating, Litigation Practice
The court rejected a submission that Mr Justice Vinelott's view as to the scope of the word "document" was restricted to questions of discovery under the rules of court. He applied the extended meaning of a document described to the question of whether the deliberate deletion of information stored on the disc of an office computer was a contemptuous breach of an order restraining a solicitor from destroying or altering any documents relating to a conveyancing transaction.
1 Cites

1 Citers


 
Regina v Coventry Justices Ex Parte Bullard and Another Gazette, 15 April 1992; (1992) 95 CAR 175
15 Apr 1992
QBD

Criminal Evidence, Rating
Computer based evidence, which says what would have been said by the person making the record, remains hearsay, and is inadmissible without statutory provision otherwise. There is no exception for summary civil proceedings for the collection of community charge arrears. Legislation in the Magistrates court had made computer based evidence admissible but only for criminal proceedings. The crucial distinction is between ‘computer print-outs containing information implanted by a human, and print-outs containing records produced without human intervention’. Critical inputs into the computer had been of information either wholly or in part implanted by human agency and were thus inadmissible in evidence. The information showing the amount of the arrears due in respect of community charges had been inputted by a person so that the printout in such circumstances was tantamount to a statement made by the person who fed the data into the machine.
Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984
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 Westminster City Council v Woodbury (Valuation Officer) and the Yard Arm Club Ltd; CA 1-Nov-1992 - [1992] RA 1; [1992] RV 1; [1991] EGLR 173
 
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