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R v MICHAEL DEEGAN (APPLICATION TO TREAT NOTICE OF ABANDONMENT AS A NULLITY) (2008)

PUBLISHED January 18, 2008
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[2008] EWCA Crim 62

Where an applicant had been told authoritatively but wrongly that he was not serving an indefinite sentence and he abandoned his appeal, the court was entitled to treat that abandonment as a nullity and reinstate the appeal.

CA (Crim Div) (Hughes LJ, Underhill J, Sir Christopher Holland)

18/01/2008

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