R (Ogunsola) v Crown Court at Aylesbury [2021] EWHC 1062 (Admin) – s 127 MCA – IA 1978.
- statutory time limit for summary offence not avoided by charging indictable offence, outside period of 6 months, and subsequently amending information to charge a summary offence.
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Related case digests
- R v Scunthorpe Justices ex parte McPhee and Gallagher (1998) 162 JP 635 - Ss 123 and 127 MCA.
- amendment of information to allege different offence, but same misdoing, out of time. - Dougall v CPS [2018] EWHC 1367 (Admin) – S 127 MCA– s 5 and Schedule 1 IA 1978 - s 47 OAPA - s 39 CJA 1988.
- information, even if initially alleges indictable offence, may not be amended to allege summary offence if not laid within six months of the offence. - matters not that amended information alleges same misdoing as original charge.