R (on the application of COMMISSIONER OF POLICE OF THE METROPOLIS) (Claimant) v CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT (Defendant) & (1) MG (2) CROWN PROSECUTION SERVICE (Interested Parties) (2013)

Despite a substantial delay in applying for judicial review, it was in the public interest to quash a court’s decision purporting to lift a sexual offender’s notification requirements. The court lacked power to make that order, and the grant of relief upheld the rule of law and ensured that all applications to life notification requirements […]

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CROWN PROSECUTION SERVICE v LR (2010)

Arrangements to provide defence lawyers with the relevant material for the sole purpose of discharging their professional responsibilities to their client, and the acceptance by them of access to such material for that purpose, could not, in any circumstances, be regarded as criminal. Where, in the course of proceedings concerning the making and possession of […]

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