“A prosecution for possession of indecent images of a child has been stayed as an abuse of process after the Crown Prosecution Service refused to make copies of the images for the defence, claiming that to do so would lead CPS staff to commit an offence.”
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Law Society’s Gazette, 20th May 2010
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The Saving Gateway Accounts Act 2009 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2010
The Capital Gains Tax (Annual Exempt Amount) Order 2010
The Working Tax Credit (Entitlement and Maximum Rate) (Amendment) Regulations 2010
The Value Added Tax (Consideration for Fuel Provided for Private Use) Order 2010
The Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2010
The Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (Commencement No.12) Order 2010
The Rules of the Air (Amendment) Regulations 2010
The Inspectors of Education, Children’s Services and Skills (No. 2) Order 2010
The Electricity (Standards of Performance) Regulations 2010
The Landfill Tax (Amendment) Regulations 2010
The Registered Pension Schemes (Standard Lifetime and Annual Allowances) Order 2010
The School Support Staff Negotiating Body (Excluded Persons) Regulations 2010
The Complaints against Schools (England) Regulations 2010
The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Registration of Local Authorities) Order 2010
The Renewables Obligation (Amendment) Order 2010
The Right to Manage (Prescribed Particulars and Forms) (England) Regulations 2010
The Motor Vehicles (International Circulation) (Amendment) Order 2010
The Air Navigation (Amendment) Order 2010
The International Criminal Court Act 2001 (Overseas Territories) (Amendment) Order 2010
The Welsh Zone (Boundaries and Transfer of Functions) Order 2010
The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2010
The Protection from Tobacco (Sales from Vending Machines) (England) Regulations 2010
The Tobacco Advertising and Promotion (Display of Prices) (England) Regulations 2010
The Immigration Services Commissioner (Designated Professional Body) (Fees) Order 2010
The Police Pensions (Descriptions of Service) Order 2010
The Service Voters’ Registration Period Order 2010
The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2010
The Credit Rating Agencies Regulations 2010
The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) (Amendment) Order 2010
The European Parliamentary (United Kingdom Representatives) Pensions (Amendment) Order 2010
The Value Added Tax (Increase of Registration Limits) Order 2010
The Income Tax (Manufactured Overseas Dividends) (Amendment) Regulations 2010
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Matalan Retail Ltd v Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2009] EWHC 2046 (Ch); [2009] WLR (D) 283
“Where a classification for duty purposes had been allocated to imported swimwear but was then revised and corrected, the VAT & Duties Tribunal and Revenue and Customs were not precluded by the doctrines of estoppel or abuse of process from retaining the monetary difference between the correct higher rates paid and the sums which would have been due under the original classification.”
WLR Daily, 10th August 2009
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R v Nelson; R v Pathak; R v Paulet [2009] EWCA Crim 1573; [2009] WLR (D) 266
“Confiscation proceedings properly taken in accordance with statutory provisions should not be stayed as an abuse of process on the ground that the judge considered that they might produce an oppressive result.”
WLR Daily, 30th July 2009
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R v Gore; R v Maher [2009] EWCA Crim 1424; [2009] WLR (D) 240
“The issue of a fixed penalty notice asserting one offence did not relieve the recipient of any possible further proceedings if and when it became apparent that a more serious offence had in fact been committed in the course of the same incident.”
WLR Daily, 15th July 2009
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Pickthall Ltd v Hill Dickinson LLP and another [2009] EWCA Civ 543; [2009] WLR (D) 183
“It was an abuse of process for a party to issue proceedings on the day before the limitation period expired in the knowledge that the cause of action was vested not in him but in his trustee in bankruptcy, despite the party’s intention of later seeking an assignment of the cause of action and amending the claim form so that the assignment (which had been obtained after the expiration of the limitation period) could be pleaded.”
WLR Daily, 12th June 2009
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Symeou v Public Prosecutor’s Office at the Court of Appeals, Patras, Greece
Queen’s Bench Divisional Court
“The abuse of process jurisdiction in extradition proceedings did not include misconduct or bad faith by police in the requesting state.”
The Times, 13th May 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The jurisdiction to order a person’s discharge if his extradition would constitute an abuse of process did not extend to consideration of misconduct or bad faith by the police of the requesting state in the investigation of the case or the preparation of evidence for trial.”
WLR Daily, 6th May 2009
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TB (Jamaica) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Court of Appeal
“It would be wrong as a matter of principle if the Secretary of State for the Home Department could circumvent the decision of an immigration appeal tribunal by an administrative decision.”
The Times, 9th September 2008
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Panday v Virgil (Senior Superintendent of Police)
Privy Council
“When allowing an appeal against conviction on the ground of apparent bias in the conduct of the trial, the Court of Appeal could order a retrial if the defendant had been properly charged and brought before the court without any violation of the rule of law and it was possible to have a fair retrial before a different tribunal.”
The Times, 11th April 2008
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Panday v Virgil (Senior Superintendent of Police) [2008] UKPC 24; [2008] WLR (D) 102
“The Court of Appeal might order the retrial of a defendant whose conviction was quashed on the grounds of apparent bias if the defendant had been properly charged and brought before the court without any violation of the rule of law and a fair retrial before a different judge was possible.”
WLR Daily, 10th April 2008
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Stuart v Goldberg Linde and another [2008] EWCA Civ 2 [2008] WLR (D) 4
“In determining whether a claim was an abuse of the process of the court on the ground that it should have been included in a previous action, the prospects of the claim’s success or failure and delay in bringing it (falling short of a statutory time bar or laches) were not generally relevant.”
WLR Daily, 18th January 2008
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Aldi Stores Ltd v WSP Group plc and Others
Court of Appeal
“In complex commercial multiparty litigation, a party wanting to pursue other proceedings but to preserve a right in existing proceedings, had to raise that issue with the court to enable it to express its view on the proper use of resources and the economic and efficient conduct of the litigation.”
The Times, 4th December 2007
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Aldi Stores Ltd v WSP Group plc and others [2007] EWCA Civ 1260
“Where a party in complex commercial multi-party litigation wished to pursue other proceedings whilst reserving a right in existing proceedings, that issue should be raised with the court so that the court could express its view as part of the case management as to the proper use of its resources and the efficient and economic conduct of the litigation.”
WLR Daily, 29th November 2007
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