This case narrowed the ambit of section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000 concerning documents found in the defendants’ possession which were chemical formulae and technical drawings. Jacques Karim Abi-Ayed was accused of having documents "likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing to commit terrorist acts."
16.12.2004
Company Director accused of asset stripping.
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16.12.2004
A case brought by the Serious Fraud Office concerning an asset stripping fraud where it was said that companies were acquired with the sole intention of dishonestly extracting cash before they...
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02.12.2004
This was a seven month manslaughter trial which went to the Court of Appeal. Coates appealed against his conviction, claiming the excessive length of the joint trial, where his case...
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02.12.2004
The first prosecution under the Sexual Offences Act 2003. Dimitrov violently exploited young Russian girls in the London sex trade.
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18.11.2004
Where the Serious Fraud Office intended to give copies of documents it had seized to other government departments discharging functions on behalf of the Crown, it should normally give...
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R v Saik
[2004] EWCA Crim 2936 Times, November 29, 2004
04.11.2004
The defendant appealed against conviction and sentence after pleading guilty to conspiracy to launder the proceeds of crime, following legal advice as to length of sentence and the security of...
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04.11.2004
This was the first case to expressly distinguish in terms of sentence between single images and video footage in cases of downloading child pornography. In dismissing the appeal, the court...
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14.10.2004
This case was brought by the Serious Fraud Office concerning a 2.2 million US dollar investment fraud. The accused, Roddam Twiss was the chief executive of the Dragon Group which...
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04.10.2004
When setting the specified minimum term following a life sentence imposed on a conviction for murder the judge had taken the wrong starting point and had failed to regard, as...
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14.09.2004
In a double murder trial, Phiona Davis was accused of killing her great-grandmother and her former boyfriend. She was acquited of murder on grounds of insanity as she was found to...
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25.08.2004
The defendant's conviction for indecent assault and burglary was upheld as there had overall been no unfairness. Although the prosecution had not produced evidence before the trial to establish continuity...
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R v Sed
[2004] EWCA Crim 1294 [2004] 1 W.L.R. 3218 [2005] 1 Cr. App. R. 4 Times, July 8, 2004
08.07.2004
The court dismissed the defendant’s appeal against a rape conviction. The victim was an 81 year old woman suffering from Alzheimer's disease. She had been unfit to attend court...
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28.06.2004
This was an amicus brief on behalf of members of UK Parliament: A landmark United States Supreme Court decision established the U.S. court system has the authority to decide whether...
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30.04.2004
In this case the defendant was acquitted on the basis that the relevant provisions of the Insolvency Act 1986 should be read down to impose an evidential burden only...
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16.04.2004
Guidelines on drafting indictments where a defendant was charged with possession of indecent photographs or pseudo photographs of children.
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26.03.2004
The applicant's request for habeas corpus and application for judicial review was refused.
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R v Collins & Keep
Times, February 5, 2004; [2004] EWCA Crim 83 [2004] 1 W.L.R. 1705 [2004] 2 Cr. App. R. 11 (2004)
28.01.2004
A lie told to the police by a co-accused in the presence of the defendant, who did not correct it, could not form the basis of leaving to the jury...
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19.01.2004
This case concerned a prosecution of a high profile rapist. Edward Godfrey was a serial sex attacker who had previously been convicted of four rapes on three women in Australia...
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