There has been a failure on the part of the trial judge to include costs incurred at a committal hearing in an order for costs which was made in favour of an accused who had been acquitted. It had plainly been the intention of the trial judge to include such costs in the order which he made. Upon application to that judge to amend that order, as pronounced, the application was granted.
Held: The Crown Court as a court of record has an inherent jurisdiction, under the slip rule, to correct an order which was drawn up in a way which did not reflect what the judge had ordered in open court.
Judge Rubin
[1976] QB 414
England and Wales
Cited by:
Applied – Regina v Saville CACD 24-Jan-1980
The Crown Court had made a criminal bankruptcy order in the sum of andpound;5,000 but failed to identify how that was to be distributed between the offences. The judge subsequently, but after the 28 day period provided by section 11(2) of the 1971 . .
Cited – Norman and Others, Regina v CACD 20-Jul-2006
The defendant said that the judge in setting his sentence had failed correctly to identify the time he had spent in custody awaiting trial, and which would act as time served.
Held: The defendants were entitled to a direction. If the time for . .
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Criminal Practice
Updated: 10 December 2021; Ref: scu.244714