A police investigation into an offence not yet committed, did not count as an investigation into that offence for the purposes of setting the start date under the Act.
Citations:
Times 05-Feb-1998, [1998] EWHC Admin 108, [1998] CLR 510
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Statutes:
Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 1(3)
Cited by:
Cited – Brizzalari v Regina CACD 19-Feb-2004
Limits to Requests for Adverse Inferences
In closing, prosecuting counsel had suggested that during the trial two matters had been mentioned by the defence which had not been mentioned earlier, and that the jury should feel free to draw proper inferences under the 1984 Act from that . .
Cited – Regina v Uxbridge Magistrates Court, Ex Parte Patel; Regina v City of London Magistrates Court, Ex Parte Cropper QBD 7-Dec-1999
There is no rule to say that the investigation of an offence cannot begin until after it has been committed. For the Act, the meaning of ‘criminal investigation’ has the same meaning in Part I as in Part II, and accordingly, where an investigation . .
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Criminal Practice, Magistrates
Updated: 27 May 2022; Ref: scu.138229
