Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2011] All ER (D) 130 (Aug)
Court: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division
Judge:

Gross LJ, Davis and Calvert-Smith JJ (judgment delivered extempore)

Representation Daniel Bunting (assigned by the Registrar of Criminal Appeals) for the defendant.
Judgment Dates: 25 August 2011

Catchwords

Criminal law - Harassment - Restraining order - Defendant acquitted of making threat to kill but subject to indefinite restraining order - Whether making of order justified - s 5A.

The Case

Criminal law Harassment. The Court of Appeal, Criminal Division, refused to quash the material parts of a restraining order made against a defendant upon acquittal on the basis that there had been an evidential basis for the making of the order by the judge.

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