Weekly Digest: 17 February 2020
This week’s edition considers one judgment from the Supreme Court, three judgments from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division), two judgments from the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) and one...
The luck of the law – when is criminal conduct a matter of concern to the international community?
Certain crimes transcend the territorial confines of any State and become a matter of concern to the world as a whole. In those cases, where a domestic prosecution is not...
Weekly Digest: 10 February 2020
This week's edition contains two judgments of the Divisional Court and one of the Crown Court. In Director of the Serious Fraud Office v Airbus SE the Crown Court approved...
Weekly Digest: 3 February 2020
This week's edition contains two judgments from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division), one from the Divisional Court and one from the magistrates' courts. In Reece the Court of Appeal dismissed an...
Weekly Digest: 26 January 2020
This week’s edition considers two judgments from the Court of Appeal (Civil Division). In R (Michael) v Governor of Whitemoor Prison a prisoner appealed against a decision that he should attend a...
Weekly Digest: 21 January 2020
This week’s edition considers three judgments from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). In Thomas the Court of Appeal considers an appeal against conviction principally based on the judge's decision to reserve...
Weekly Digest: 6 January 2020
This week's edition considers seven judgments: five from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division), one from the Divisional Court and one from the Investigatory Powers Tribunal. In Abdurahman the Court of Appeal considered ...
Weekly Digest: 16 December 2019
This week’s edition considers one judgment of the Court of Appeal. In R. v McCarthy (Brendan Patrick) the Court considered an appeal against a sentence imposed following the appellant’s plea of guilty...
Weekly Digest: 9 December 2019
This week’s edition considers four judgments; two of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division), and two of the Divisional Court. In Reynolds the Court of Appeal considered the proper approach to summing-up and...
Causation and Cleopatra’s nose
A nose can be a curious thing: so too causation. I In his Pensées (1669), published from an array of notes following his death, Blaise Pascal expressed a characteristically interesting view...