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Regina v Latif; Regina v Shahzad
By xr5q8m1k20 March 2019LATIF
Regina v Latif; Regina v Shahzad: HL 23 Jan 1996
References: Gazette 07-Feb-1996, Times 23-Jan-1996, Independent 23-Jan-1996, [1996] 1 WLR 104, [1996] 2 Cr App R 92, [1996] UKHL 16, [1996] 1 All ER 353, [1996] Crim LR 92
Coram: Lord Steyn, Lord Keith of Kinkel, Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle, Lord Mustill, Lord Hoffmann
Ratio: The defendant had been lured into the UK by the unlawful acts of customs officers. He claimed abuse of process.
Held: The category of cases in which the abuse of process principles can be applied is not closed. A customs officer committing an offence alongside the defendant did not necessarily make thereby make a prosecution of the defendant an abuse of process. The question was whether the behaviour was ‘so unworthy or shameful that it was an affront to the public conscience to allow the prosecution to proceed.’ ‘In this case the issue is whether, despite the fact that a fair trial was possible, the judge ought to have stayed the criminal proceedings on broader considerations of the integrity of the criminal justice system. The law is settled. Weighing countervailing considerations of policy and justice, it is for the judge in the exercise of his discretion to decide whether there has been an abuse of process, which amounts to an affront to the public conscience and requires the criminal proceedings to be stayed: R v Horseferry Road Magistrates’ Court, ex p. Bennett . . The speeches in Bennett conclusively establish that proceedings may be stayed in the exercise of the judge’s discretion not only where a fair trial is impossible but also where it would be contrary to the public interest in the integrity of the criminal justice system that trial should take place. An infinite variety of cases could arise.’ As to whether the chain of causation had been broken: ‘The free, deliberate and informed intervention of a second person, who intends to exploit the situation created by the first, but is not acting in concert with him is held to relieve the first actor of criminal responsibility.’
Statutes: Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 78
Appeal from – Regina v Latif, Regina v Shahzad CACD (Times 17-Mar-94, Gazette 11-May-94, (1994) 15 Cr App R (S) 864)
The acts of an agent provocateur give no defence under English Law. The remedy lies in the Judge’s discretion to exclude evidence unfairly obtained. Conduct which leads to the importation of drugs is ‘fraudulent evasion’. The appellants were . .
Cited – Director of Public Prosecutions v Stonehouse HL ([1978] AC 55, [1977] 2 All ER 909, (1977) 65 Cr App R 192)
The defendant had been charged with attempting to obtain property by deception by fabricating his death by drowning in the sea off Miami in Florida. The final act alleged to constitute the offence occurred outside the jurisdiction of the English . .
Cited – Somchai Liangsiriprasert v Government of the United States of America PC ([1991] 1 AC 225, (1991) 92 Cr App R 77, Bailii, [1990] UKPC 31)
(Hong Kong) Application was made for the defendant’s extradition from Hong Kong to the USA. The question was whether a conspiracy entered into outside Hong Kong with the intention of committing the criminal offence of trafficking in drugs in Hong . .
Cited – Kennedy v Regina CACD (Bailii, [2005] EWCA Crim 685, Times 06-Apr-05, [2005] 1 WLR 2159)
The court considered when it was appropriate to find someone guilty of manslaughter where that person has been involved in the supply of a Class A controlled drug, which is then self administered by the person to whom it is supplied, and the . .
Cited – Christian and others v The Queen PC (Bailii, [2006] UKPC 47, Times 15-Nov-06)
(The Pitcairn Islands) The defendants appealed convictions for assorted sexual offences against underage girls. They denied that the laws under which they were convicted had applied to the Pitcairn Islands.
Held: The appeals against conviction . .
Cited – Regina v Kennedy HL (Bailii, [2007] UKHL 38, Times 19-Oct-07, [2007] 4 All ER 1083, [2007] 3 WLR 612, [2007] Inquest LR 234, [2008] 1 Cr App Rep 19, [2008] Crim LR 222, [2008] AC 269)
The defendant had been convicted of manslaughter. He had supplied a class A drug to a friend who then died taking it. The House was asked ‘When is it appropriate to find someone guilty of manslaughter where that person has been involved in the . .
Cited – Gnango, Regina v SC ([2012] 2 All ER 129, [2012] 2 WLR 17, [2012] 1 Cr App R 18, [2012] 1 AC 827, Bailii, [2011] UKSC 59, SC Summary, SC, UKSC 2010/0165, Bailii Summary)
The prosecutor appealed against a successful appeal by the defendant against his conviction for murder. He and an opponent had engaged in a street battle using guns. His opponent had shot an innocent passer by. The court was now asked as to whether . .
Cited – Regina v Moore and Another CACD (Bailii, [2013] EWCA Crim 85)
The appellants said that they had been entrapped into committing the offences of which they stood convicted. Their applications for stay on the ground of abuse of process had been rejected.
Rix Lj said: ‘the . .
Cited – Regina v Moon CACD (Bailii, [2004] EWCA Crim 2872)
The defendant, a heroin addict said that the encouragement of a police officer to supply her with a small quantity of heroin amounted to entrapment and that her prosecution should have been stayed as an abuse of process. The officer had been . .