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The next few appointees were unimportant and uncontroversial, until Sir Charles Willie Matthews QC, a man Rozenberg describes as "the first real DPP". The Prosecution of Offences Act 1908 repealed the section of the 1884 Act that unified the DPP and Treasury Solicitor, giving Matthews an office of his own on his appointment in the same year. [7]
However, the distinction was confirmed in DPP v Little [c 1] in 1992. There, the conflation of assault and battery was criticised as duplicitous. [3] [4] If D throws a punch at V, who dodges, this is likely to be an assault but not a battery; if V is attacked from behind, this may constitute a battery without an assault.
Chen v DPP [1997] EWHC Admin 221 (4 March 1997) [38] [39] [40] – held that although an item may technically be an offensive weapon per se, the whole circumstances need to be taken into account. The High Court in this case ruled that whether an item is an offensive weapon or not is not a question for the law to decide, but the jury in this ...
McNulty v DPP [2009] IESC 12; [2009] 3 IR 572 The Supreme Court upheld the decisions of the lower courts and decided that the question of Judicial Review was not to be dealt with by the Supreme Court. DPP v McLoughlin [2009] IESC 65: The admissibility of hearsay evidence for bail applications Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform v Dolny
In DPP v Orum [1989] 1 WLR 88, [1988] 3 All ER 449, [1989] 88 Cr App R 261 the Divisional Court confirmed that police officers are not unable to be victims of section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986 caused by swearing and other abusive/threatening behaviour, but this behaviour must be in excess of what the officer is or should be used to.
DPP offices in Omagh. The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is the head of the Public Prosecution Service of Northern Ireland, and is appointed by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland. [1] The position of DPP was established in 1972. [2] The current DPP is Stephen Herron who was appointed in 2017. He replaced Barra McGrory QC.
After the brief hearing Mr. Justice Kelly remitted what was left of Sheedy's sentence. Neither the gardaí nor the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) were told of the review or the fact that Sheedy was released. The only representation by the state was the appearance of a clerk in the Chief State Solicitor's office who saw a listing for the ...
Dunne v Director of Public Prosecutions, [2002] 2 IR 305; [2002] IESC 27; [2002] 2 ILRM 241, is a reported Irish Supreme Court case in which the Court held that fair procedure imposes a duty on the prosecution to seek out and preserve all evidence that has a bearing or a potential bearing on the issue of guilt or innocence.