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...