The defendant’s conviction for possessing a bladed article in a public place was quashed on the ground that the landing of a block of residential flats where the appellant had been drunk and disorderly, and to which access was restricted to residents and their lawful visitors, was not a public place.
[1992] 95 Cr App R 415
England and Wales
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Cited – Harriot v Director of Public Prosecutions Admn 4-May-2005
The defendant appealed by case stated against his conviction under the 1988 Act of possessing a bladed article in a public place. He had been found in the forecourt of a hostel by the police seeking to re-enter after being excluded. He said that it . .
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