[2001] EWHC Admin 1141

Where magistrates' courts proceedings were not continuing other than for the purpose of bringing about the return of a fugitive offender, the only provision under which the forfeiture of a recognisance could be ordered was that contained in s.120(1)(b) Magistrates' Court Act 1980.

DC (Lord Woolf of Barnes LCJ, Ouseley J)

19/12/2001