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- Title
Intentionally Overcharged?: R v Thacker & Ors [2021] EWCA Crim 97.
- Authors
Krebs, Beatrice
- Abstract
The offence was so serious that the court was enjoined to consider the dangerousness provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 and it was also a "Convention offence" for the purposes of the Terrorism Act 2006. The appellants had initially been arrested for several summary offences but were subsequently indicted and convicted under s 1(2)(b) of the 1990 Act which makes it an offence for any person by means of any device, substance or weapon unlawfully and intentionally to disrupt the services of such an aerodrome, in such a way as to endanger or be likely to endanger the safe operation of the aerodrome or the safety of persons at the aerodrome. The instant decision is significant in that it clarifies the various offence elements while expounding the inaptness of charging this particular offence in relation to non-violent direct action on airport grounds.
- Subjects
AIR traffic control; STATUTORY interpretation; LEGAL rights; JURY instructions
- Publication
Journal of Criminal Law, 2021, Vol 85, Issue 3, p232
- ISSN
0022-0183
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/00220183211008679