The Law Reports (Appeal Cases)
[1977] AC 105
[HOUSE OF LORDS]
ATTORNEY-GENERAL FOR NORTHERN IRELAND'S REFERENCE
(No. 1 OF 1975)
1976 May 3,
4,
5,
6,
10,
11;
July 7
July 7
Lord Diplock, Viscount Dilhorne, Lord Simon of Glaisdale, Lord Edmund-Davies and Lord Russell of Killowen
Northern Ireland
— Attorney-General's reference
— Legislation coming into force
— Making of rules of court safeguarding anonymity condition precedent
— Whether valid rule-making power
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Interpretation Act 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 63)
s. 14
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Criminal Appeal (Northern Ireland) Act 1968 (c. 21) (as amended), ss. 48A, 49 (1)
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Criminal Justice Act 1972 (c. 71), ss. 63 (3), 66 (6) (b)
Crime
— Murder
— Soldier on patrol
— Fleeing suspect shot
— Honest and reasonable, though mistaken, belief that he was a terrorist
— Reasonableness of force used a matter of fact and not of law