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R (ON THE APPLICATION OF DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS) V DEVIZES MAGISTRATES' COURT (2006)

PUBLISHED April 5, 2006
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[2006] EWHC 1072 (Admin)

A magistrates' court had erred in accepting jurisdiction for sentencing in respect of a prisoner on whose person a quantity of drugs was found, as the authorities indicated that the appropriate sentence was outside of the range of sentences available to the magistrates' court.

QBD (Admin) (Maurice Kay LJ)

05/04/2006

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