Weekly Digest: 20 December 2017
In this week’s Digest, the last of 2017, the Court of Appeal allowed an appeal against the refusal of a claim for JR against the IPCC, holding both that the...
Money-laundering: a possible loophole for property derived from ‘registration offences’?
The US special investigation into ‘Russian influence’ in the 2016 US Presidential election alleges that Paul Manafort acted as a “foreign agent” and that he laundered the proceeds of that...
Weekly Digest: 11 December 2017
In this week's Digest, the Supreme Court considered the limitation period for bringing a claim under the Human Rights Act 1998 and the Divisional Court considered whether judicial review of...
Righting another ‘wrong turn’? Dishonesty in Ivey v Genting: Part II
In this second of two posts (the first can be found here), the criticism of the Ghosh test is considered, together with a brief outline of the concept of dishonesty...
Righting another ‘wrong turn’? Dishonesty in Ivey v Genting: Part I
This blog has previously featured a summary of the landmark judgment in Ivey v Genting Casinos (UK) Ltd [2017] UKSC 67 and a post examining the dishonesty test now to be applied in criminal...
Weekly Digest: 4 December 2017
In this week’s Digest, there were two interesting decisions handed down by the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). In the first, a conviction for conspiracy to import cannabis was quashed...
Dwell not: DPP v Distill [2017] EWHC 2244 (Admin)
The concept of a “dwelling” has some significance in the criminal law. A burglar who commits their crime in a dwelling is sentenced more harshly than if they were to...
Weekly Digest: 27 November 2017
In this week’s Digest, the High Court held that the Magistrates’ Court possesses no power to extend the time limit to apply to state a case under s.111(2) of the...
How now to spot dishonesty
What place a defendant’s state of mind following the Supreme Court decision in Ivey v Genting [2017] UKSC 67? (more…)
Section 2 notices: here and now?
Section 2(2) and (3) of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 (‘CJA 1987’) empower the Director of the Serious Fraud Office (‘the SFO’) to give notice in writing requiring a person...