ABSTRACT
In Zykin v CPS [2009] EWHC 1469 (Admin); (2009) 173 JP 361, Bean J said (at [16]) that s 142 'does not confer a wide and general power on a magistrates' court to reopen a previous decision on the grounds that it is in the interests of justice to do so'; rather, it is 'a power to be used in a relatively limited situation, namely one which is akin to mistake or the slip rule'.
