The Weekly Law Reports
[2014] 1 WLR 3994
Court of Appeal
*Regina v Clayton
[2014] EWCA Crim 1030
2014 May 16;
23
Elias LJ, Jeremy Baker J, Judge Collier QC
Planning— Enforcement notice— Failure to comply— Defendants charged with failure to comply with enforcement notice— Notice valid on face— Information available suggesting factual basis for issue of notice not in existence— Whether prosecution to be stayed as abuse of process— Whether tantamount to challenge to validity of enforcement notice in criminal proceedings—
Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c 8), s 285(1) (as amended by Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c 34), Sch 19, Pt 1)