This article is relevant to AQA AS Unit 1: Law Making and the Legal System, OCR AS Unit G151: English Legal System and Unit G152: Sources of Law and WJEC AS Unit 1: Understanding Legal Structures and Processes and Unit 2: Understanding Legal Reasoning, Personnel and Methods.
On 19 May 2011 Mr Justice McCombe, sitting in the High Court in Manchester, delivered his judgement in the case of Greater Manchester Police v Hookway. The case was an application for judicial review of a decision made by the City of Salford Magistrates’ Court on 5 April. That decision, and McCombe J’s judgement, centred on the interpretation of several sections of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984. The sections were about bail and the police’s power to detain a suspect without charge.
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