The Weekly Law Reports
[1983] 1 WLR 151
[HOUSE OF LORDS]
REGINA RESPONDENT AND GOLDSTEIN APPELLANT
1982 Dec. 13;
1983 Jan. 20
1983 Jan. 20
Lord Diplock, Lord Edmund-Davies, Lord Keith of Kinkel, Lord Roskill and Lord Brightman
Crime
— Practice
— Existence of offence
— Charge of fraudulent evasion of ban on import of radiotelephonic apparatus
— Submission that ban contrary to E.E.C. law
— Whether question of law
— Whether for judge to determine
—
E.E.C. Treaty (Cmnd. 5179-II), arts. 30, 36
Revenue
— Customs and excise
— Prohibition on import and export of goods
— Import of radiotelephonic apparatus contrary to prohibition
— Whether prohibition “justified”
—
Wireless Telegraphy Act 1967 (c.72), s. 7
—
E.E.C. Treaty (Cmnd. 5179-II), arts. 30, 36
—
European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), ss. 2, 3 (1)