Weekly Digest: 22 October 2018
This week’s Digest considers three judgments. In the first, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that the uncertainty ensuing from Brexit does not require EU member states...
Mixed messages: is there an inconsistency as to the extra-territorial ambit of disclosure between POCA and the SFO?
On 6 September 2018, the Administrative Court handed down its judgement in the case of the Queen on the application of KBR Inc v the Director of the SFO [2018] EWHC 2368...
Weekly Digest: 15 October 2018
This week’s Digest considers two judgments. The first, handed down by the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division), considers the interpretation of s, 4(2) of the Theft Act 1968 and the...
Weekly Digest: 8 October 2018
This week’s Digest considers three judgments from the High Court. The first of these considers a challenge to the first Unexplained Wealth Order made under s.362A(1) of the Proceeds of...
Michaelmas Update (2): 1 October 2018
This week’s Digest is the final post collating judgments released during the vacation period. This week includes five judgments, all handed down by the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). The...
The letter of the law
Even black-letter law is not limited to words on a printed page: beneath and behind statutory language, values and principles which are often nowhere to be seen in the statute’s...
Michaelmas Update (1): 24 September 2018
This week’s Digest is the first of two posts that consider judgments handed down during the vacation period. In part one, we focus on the Divisional Court’s decision that the...
Adequate Procedures and the Watchful Eye of the Prosecutor
In a recent speech to the Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime (see here), Lisa Osofsky, the new Director of the Serious Fraud Office, concluded a general survey of her...
Might you be better off not attending your trial?
In July this year, Jack Shepherd was convicted at the Central Criminal Court of gross negligence manslaughter arising out of the high-speed crash of a speed boat on the River...
Has the time come for wholesale reform of the criminal justice system in England and Wales?
The news is beset by reports that the criminal justice system is breaking, damaged by decades of cutbacks to public legal services. There are calls for the review of disclosure...