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The Weekly Law Reports

[2025] 2 WLR 215

Court of Appeal

Rex v Smith (Joshua) and others

[2024] EWCA Crim 1040

2024 June 26; Sept 13

Holroyde LJ, Griffiths J, Judge Dean KC

Nuisance— Public nuisance— Elements of offence— Defendants trespassing on race track during Formula 1 motor race— Whether case law on common law offence of public nuisance relevant to statutory offence— Whether defendants creating risk of serious harm to “section of the public”— Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c 32), s 78

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