[2009] EWHC 2621 (Admin)

The court expressed some doubt about the correctness of the decision in R. (on the application of Culley) v Dorchester Crown Court [2007] EWHC 109 (Admin), (2007) 171 J.P. 373, in which it was held that a decision as to whether a defendant had breached his bail had to be reached by a justice within 24 hours of the arrest: the statutory requirement was that the defendant merely had to be brought before a justice as soon as practicable and in any event within 24 hours after his arrest.

DC (Richards LJ, Maddison J)

09/07/2009