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Littlejohn v South Wales Police

Author / Contributor: Jeremy Johnson QC
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Littlejohn v South Wales Police
   
Issue: Whether time spent in hospital (following police fears that a detainee had swallowed packaged drugs, and the package might burst causing a medical emergency) counted for the purposes of calculating custody time limits under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984
   
Court: Divisional Court
   
Reference:   CO/0719/2008
   
Neutral Citation:   [2008] EWHC 301 (Admin)
   
Judge(s): Pill LJ, Roderick Evans and Walker JJ
   
Date: 25 January 2008