Practice and Procedure

R (on the application of DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS) v NORTH & EAST HERTFORDSHIRE JUSTICES (2008)

PUBLISHED January 17, 2008
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[2008] EWHC 103 (Admin)

Where a witness for the prosecution failed to attend a criminal trial and neither the Crown nor the witness was at fault, a decision of the magistrates to refuse the Crown's application for an adjournment was irrational and perverse.

DC (Latham LJ, Cooke J)

17/01/2008

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