R v Preddy

Parliamentary Archives,
HL/PO/JU/18/256

Regina v Freddy (Appellant)

(On Appeal from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division))

Regina v Slade (Appellant)

(On Appeal from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division))

(Consolidated Appeals)

Regina v Dhillon (Appellant)

(On Appeal from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division))

(Conjoined Appeals)

JUDGMENT

Die Mercurii 10° Julii 1996

Upon Report from the Appellate Committee to whom was referred the Cause
Regina against Freddy, Regina against Slade and Regina against Dhillon, That the
Committee had heard Counsel as well on Wednesday the 13th as on Thursday the 14th day
of March last upon the Petition and Appeal of John Crawford Freddy, of 12 St James
Court, 81 The Drive, Hove, East Sussex, of Mark Slade, care of Bishops and Light
Solicitors, 8 Fasten Place, Brighton (which said Appeals were by an Order of this House of
the 15th day of November 1995 consolidated), and of Rajpaul Singh Dhillon, of 18 Great
Wheatley, Rayleigh, Essex, praying that the matter of the Orders set forth in the Schedules
thereto, namely Orders of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) of the 5th
and 8th days of August 1994, might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen in Her
Court of Parliament and that the said Orders might be reversed, varied or altered or that
the Petitioners might have such other relief in the premises as to Her Majesty the Queen in
Her Court of Parliament might seem meet; as upon the cases of the Director of Public
Prosecutions (on behalf of Her Majesty) lodged in answer to the said Appeals; and due
consideration had this day of what was offered on either side in this Cause:

It is Ordered and Adjudged, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in the Court of
Parliament of Her Majesty the Queen assembled, That the said Orders of Her Majesty's
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) of the 5th and 8th days of August 1994 complained of
in the said Appeals, and the Orders of the Crown Court of the 22nd day of January 1993
and the 14th day of March 1994, be, and the same are hereby, Set aside and that the
convictions be, and the same are hereby, Quashed: And it is further Ordered, That the first
and second questions certified in each case be answered in the negative in the terms set out
in the speech of the Lord Goff of Chieveley.

Cler: Parliamentor:

HOUSE OF LORDS

OPINIONS OF THE LORDS OF APPEAL FOR JUDGMENT

IN THE CAUSE

REGINA

v.

PREDDY
(APPELLANT)

(ON APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEAL)
(CRIMINAL DIVISION)

REGINA

v.

SLADE
(APPELLANT)

(ON APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEAL)

(CRIMINAL DIVISION)
(CONSOLIDATED APPEALS)

REGINA
v.

DHILLON

(APPELLANT)

(ON APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEAL)

(CRIMINAL DIVISION)

(CONJOINED APPEALS)

ON 10TH JULY 1996

Lord Chancellor
Lord Goff of Chieveley
Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle
Lord Slynn of Hadley
Lord Hoffmann

LORD MACKAY OF CLASHFERN L.C.

My Lords,

I have had the privilege of reading in draft the speech to be delivered