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...