Weekly Digest: 30 July 2018
This week’s Digest considers four judgments. The first is from the Supreme Court, and relates to s. 90C of the Representation of the People Act 1983. The second and third...
European Production and Preservation Orders
On 17 April 2018, the European Commission issued a proposal for the introduction of ‘European Production and Preservation Orders for electronic evidence in criminal matters’. The aim is to make...
Weekly Digest: 23 July 2018
This week’s Digest considers five judgments. The first two were handed down by the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and relate to the alternative verdict of infanticide under the Infanticide...
Making applications to the ECtHR: clearing the admissibility hurdle
Around 95% of applications to the European Court of Human Rights are declared inadmissible or struck out without substantive consideration on their merits. This may be because an application is...
Weekly Digest: 16 July 2018
This week’s Digest considers four judgments. The first is from the Supreme Court and considers the meaning of the phrase ‘reasonable grounds to suspect’ in s. 17(b) of the Terrorism...
Case comment: SFO v Saleh [2018] EWHC 1012
In SFO v Saleh, the Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the SFO in an appeal against a property freezing order for £4.4 million. This case illustrates the willingness and...
Weekly Digest: 9 July 2018
This week’s digest considers one judgment of the Supreme Court and four of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). In the Supreme Court judgment, the issue was whether judicial review...
Weekly Digest: 2 July 2018
This week's Digest considers one judgment of the Court of Appeal and one judgment of the High Court. In the first the Court of Appeal considered whether the trial judge...