CHIEF CONSTABLE OF WARWICKSHIRE v MT (2015)

A magistrates’ court had erred in ordering a chief constable to pay a respondent’s costs after he had withdrawn his application for a sexual offences prevention order. The chief constable had not acted dishonestly or unreasonably in bringing the application and so the appropriate order was no order as to costs. In contradistinction to a […]

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R V J (2004)

It was impermissible for the Crown to prosecute a charge of indecent assault under the Sexual Offences Act 1956 s.14(1) in circumstances where the conduct upon which that charge was based was only an act of unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl aged under 16 in respect of which no prosecution could be commenced under […]

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