The Weekly Law Reports
[1956] 1 WLR 622
[QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION.]
REGINA v. CAMPBELL. Ex parte NOMIKOS.
1956 April 27.
Lord Goddard C.J., Cassels and Donovan JJ.
Shipping
— Safety and load line
— Timber deck cargo
— Loaded to a height in excess of the permitted maximum on fore deck and raised quarter deck
— Whether one or two offences
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Timber Cargo Regulations, 1932 (S.R. & O., 1932, No. 110), reg. 5 (b)
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Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1932 (22 Geo. 5, c. 9), s. 61 (4), (6).
Crown Practice
— Certiorari
— Jurisdiction of inferior tribunal
— Two convictions
— Only one offence
— Plea of guilty to both charges
— Jurisdiction of the magistrate
— Certiorari a discretionary remedy.