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Hannah v. Peel, 1 K.B. 509, was a 1945 English legal case decided in the King's Bench Division of the High Court.The court held that the owner of the locus in quo does not have a superior right to possession over the finder of lost property that is unattached to the land.
The case, R (Bancoult) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, went to the Divisional Court, where it was heard by judges Richard Gibbs and John Laws. [13] Bancoult's argument was made on several grounds: firstly, that the Crown could not exclude a British citizen from British territory, except in times of war, without a ...
2) In both Federal High Court and First Instance Court, there shall be one judge in each division. 3) However, there is provision of two and more presiding judges in sub-article 2 of this article: (a) charges are brought by the special Public Prosecutor's Office pursuant to Proclamation No. 22/1992; (b) civil cases heard by the Federal High ...
The case will only contain evidence if one of the questions was whether there was any evidence on the basis of which the magistrates could convict. [15] The appeal is to the Divisional Court of the King's Bench Division of the High Court. Two or three judges will sit. Two judges must agree for the application to be successful. [16]
A divisional court, in relation to the High Court of Justice of England and Wales, means a court sitting with at least two judges. [1] Matters heard by a divisional court include some criminal cases in the High Court (including appeals from magistrates' courts and in extradition proceedings) as well as certain judicial review cases.
Oxford v Moss (1979) is an English criminal law case, dealing with theft of intangible property: information.A divisional court of High Court, to whom the legal question of the taking of a proof (final draft) exam paper was referred by magistrates, and which is not one of binding precedent, ruled that information could not be deemed to be intangible property and therefore was incapable of ...
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R (Pinochet Ugarte) v Bow St Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate [2000] 1 AC 61, [1] 119 and 147 is a set of three UK constitutional law judgments by the House of Lords that examined whether former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was entitled to claim state immunity from torture allegations made by a Spanish court and therefore avoid extradition to Spain.