[2009] EWHC 689 (Admin)

Magistrates had been wrong to make an order binding a person over to keep the peace where he had been acquitted of the offence with which he was charged and the magistrates' findings of fact did not support the making of such an order; nor had there been any basis on which they could exercise their discretion to refuse him a defendant's costs order under the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 s.16.

DC (Goldring LJ, Sweeney J)

12/03/2009