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...