15 May 2008
Crowch v DPP [2008] EWHC 948 (Admin), [2008] All ER (D) 205 (Apr)
Correction from last Law Digest (see NLJ 2 May 2007, pp 630–631). An order, under s 19(1) of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985, (POA 1985) for costs incurred as a result of an unnecessary or improper act or omission by or on behalf of a prosecutor cannot be made to compensate an unrepresented defendant for his own loss of time in preparing his case and attending court (the reasoning in R v Bedlington Magistrates’ Court ex p Wilkinson [1999] 164 JP 156, construing of POA 1985, s 16 applies equally to s 19).
