The court faced an application by the SFO for a voluntary bill of indictment. Similar charges against the defendants had been discharged. The allegations involved very substantial alleged frauds.
Fulford LJ
[2014] EWHC 3803 (QB)
Bailii
Administration of Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1933 2(2)(b)
England and Wales
Citing:
Cited – Regina (on the Application of) Snelgrove v the Crown Court at Woolwich, and the Crown Prosecution Service Admn 29-Sep-2004
The claimant awaited trial for GBH. The claimant sought judicial review of directions given for 1) to direct disclosure of material to the claimant; 2) to adjourn the application to enable him to call oral evidence; 3) to consider any material . .
Cited – Thompson and Another, Regina v CACD 22-Nov-2006
The prosecution sought leave to appeal the quashing of an indictment.
Held: Section 53 of the 2003 Act could not be used for this purpose. The defendants had successfully challenged the adequacy of the Crown’s case before trial. The defendants . .
Cited by:
Refusal of Voluntary indictment – Evans and Others v The Serious Fraud Office QBD 12-Feb-2015
evans_sfoQBD201502
The claimants had had criminal charges brought against them by the defendants. A court had ordered them discharged, but the defendant had recommenced proceedings and these second set of proceedings had also been dismissed by the court. They now . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Criminal Practice
Updated: 23 December 2021; Ref: scu.538899
