Weekly Digest: 25 June 2018
This week’s Digest considers three judgments of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). The first is an appeal relating to the Court’s jurisdiction to re-open a final determination; the issue...
Voluntary Euthanasia, Individual Autonomy and the Chain of Causation
The facts of Wallace [2018] EWCA Crim 690 are as tragic as they are unusual. The victim, Mr van Dongen, and the defendant, had formerly been in a long-term relationship....
Weekly Digest: 21 June 2018
This week's Digest considers two cases. In the first, the Court of Appeal considered whether a trial judge was correct to order reporting restrictions in a fraud case involving a...
A Coronial Court of Appeal – An opportunity missed?
As the five year anniversary of the coming into force of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 approaches (25th July 2018), and coronial proceedings are increasingly at the forefront of...
Are politicians so bad at asking questions?
After Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before a Congressional Committee, Jonathan Freedland, a thoughtful and well-respected commentator, wrote an opinion piece entitled, “Zuckerberg got off lightly. Why are politicians so bad at...
Weekly Digest: 4 June 2018
This week’s Digest considers three sets of recent sentencing remarks. The first is a sentence imposed for manslaughter, the second for murder and assisting an offender, and the third for murder....