Although a magistrates' court's decision not to commit to the crown court for sentence offenders who had been convicted of converting criminal property to the value of nearly £50,000 was a decision that no reasonable bench would have reached, the Director of Public Prosecutions' undue delay in applying for judicial review of that decision had been detrimental to the good administration of justice and so it was not quashed.

DC (Treacy LJ, King J)

28/11/2013