Weekly Digest: 17 December 2018
This week’s Digest considers three judgments: two from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and one from the Court of Appeal (Civil Division). The first asks whether the offence of...
Supreme Court: parole eligibility for EDS prisoners not discriminatory
Public law analysis: The Supreme Court in R (on the application of Stott) v Secretary of State for Justice [2018] UKSC 59, [2018] All ER (D) 142 has ruled that...
Weekly Digest: 12 December 2018
This week’s Digest considers two judgments of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). In the first, the Court considered whether sentences imposed upon individuals for public nuisance convictions arising out...
Weekly Digest: 3 December 2018
This week’s Digest contains one judgment from the Supreme Court and three from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). The first considers whether the UK’s extended determinate sentence regime is...
Weekly Digest: 26 November 2018
This week’s Digest considers two recent judgments, one from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and one from the Divisional Court. In the former, the Court of Appeal considered whether...
Weekly Digest: 19 November 2018
This week’s Digest considers one judgment from the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) and one from the High Court. In the former the court considered whether pension policies should count...
Weekly Digest: 12 November 2018
This week’s Digest considers four judgments from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). Most importantly, the Court in R v. Johnson; R v. Burton [2018] EWCA Crim 2485 clarified the...
The Use and Abuse of Parliamentary Privilege: does ‘public interest’ trump the rule of law?
In his statement to the House of Lords on 25th October 2018, Lord Hain said that it was “his duty under parliamentary privilege” to name Sir Philip Green as the...
Weekly Digest: 6 November 2018
This week’s Digest considers three judgments; one from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and two from the High Court. The first considers whether the conduct of the judge in...
Weekly Digest: 29 October
This week’s Digest considers four recent judgments of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). The first is an appeal against conviction, where the issue was whether the defence of loss...