The Weekly Law Reports
[2003] 2 WLR 115
Court of Appeal
Regina v Cotter and others
[2002] EWCA Crim 1033
2002 April 29;
May 10
May 10
Latham LJ, Goldring J and Judge Mettyear
Crime
— Common law offence
— Perverting course of justice
— False allegation of racially motivated assault by unidentified assailants
— Complaint investigated by police but no arrest made or proceedings commenced
— Whether investigation alone sufficient to constitute “course of public justice”
— Whether definition of offence complying with requirements of certainty
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Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch. 1, Pt I, art 7