Crown Courts

Only when he had been safely crowned king of England did Henry marry Elizabeth of York and have her crowned as his consort. Elizabeth Woodville, as Queen Dowager and the Queen s Mother, had an assured place at court but in practice was very much subordinate to Margaret Beaufort as the King s Mother. In 1487 Elizabeth retired to the traditional royal retreat of the Abbey... 

In the U.K., Dr. Karch served as a consultant to the Crown and helped prepare the cases against serial murderer Dr. Harold Shipman, who was subsequently convicted of murdering 248 of his patients. He has testified on drug abuse-related matters in courts around the world. He has a special interest in cases of alleged euthanasia, and in episodes where mothers are accused of murdering their children by the transference of drugs, either in utero or by breast feeding. 

For example, the EU recently cleared the herbicide glyphosate (Roundup), which is practically nontoxic to humans, for consumer use. Nevertheless, KEMI has notified importers and distributors that sales of glyphosate to the public will be severely restricted in the future. Faithful to its socialist traditions, the almighty Swedish State attaches no value to the billions of Swedish crowns invested by private homeowners in lawns, flowerbeds, rose gardens, and so on. An appeal to KEMI s decision will most likely be directed to the European Court of Justice. 

Jonson collaborated on Eastward Ho , which insulted the Scots and the king, and placed the authors behind bars. In 1606, Volpone put its author at the top on London s comic stage. In 1610, The Alchemist appeared, and in 1614, the attack on London Puritans, Bartholomew Fair. These plays cemented Jonson s reputation as the great poet of English comedy. He received subsidies from the Crown for his work and continued to write court masques until a quarrel with Jones returned him to full-time work in the commercial theater. 

There are few reports in the literature of analyses of material from C. edulis and the only known prosecution for the production of cathine and cathinone from Khat (R. vs. Farmer, Lewes Crown Court, 1998) was unsuccessful [5]. Nevertheless, it is still necessary and useful to understand how to identify, quantify and compare such materials. 

Imagine that you are working with one of the forensic science analytical testing companies and have just undertaken a piece of work at the request of the crown prosecution service. You have analysed a brown powder and found it to contain 70% of the controlled drug diamorphine (heroin). The counsel for the defence has requested that the sample be analysed by an independent laboratory of its choosing. The sample is reanalysed and there is a dispute in relation to the result because the defence analyst finds only 10% of the controlled drug diamorphine. You attend court and are asked to justify your results. Your lab has a rigorous quality assurance system that includes method validation, system suitability, and instrument qualification the defence lab does not. Your result is accepted as the correct value. 

Continuity of evidence. At the scene of the crime, the scene would be examined and evidence collected and packaged. Submissions are then transported to the laboratory for analysis items will be examined and tested and results reported in the form of a statement that will be submitted to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), Procurator Fiscal (PF), or other intermediate organisation for processing for court. Consider one item—say, the hammer mentioned earlier—and... 

R V Jackson Transport (Ossett) Ltd. (1996) Unreported, Health and Safety at Work, vl 8(11) p. 4 R V English Brothers Ltd. (2001) Unreported, Northampton Crown Court 30 July 2001 R v Dennis Clothier and Sons Ltd. (2002)... 

Unreported, Bristol Crown Court 23 March 2002 R v Teglgaard Hardwood (UK) Ltd. (2003) Unreported, Hull Crown Court 24 February 2004. 

R V Lion Steel Equipment Ltd. (2012) Unreported, Manchester Crown Court, 20 July 2012 (online at http //www.]udiciary.gov.uk/Resources/fCO/ Documents/Judgments/hhj-gUbart-qc-sentence-remarksr-v-lion-steel.pdf last accessed 25 July 2012). 

R V English Brothers Ltd. (2001), Unreported, Northampton Crown Court 30 July 2001. 

Hears preliminary evidence in certain cases before committing them for trial in the Crown Court. 

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