Weekly Digest: 20 August 2018
This week's digest considers one Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) judgment, the last handed down before the vacation. In it, the Court considered appeals against conviction for conspiracy to import...
Weekly Digest: 13 August 2018
This week's Digest contains an opinion of an Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union and two High Court judgments. In Advocate General Szpunar's opinion, he...
Weekly Digest: 6 August 2018
This week’s Digest considers four judgments. The first was handed down by the Supreme Court and concerned an Enhanced Criminal Record Certificate and rights under article 8 ECHR. The remaining...
Case Comment: the Court of Appeal’s decision in Tommy Robinson’s case
The decision of the Court of Appeal (Lord Burnett CJ, Turner and McGowan JJ) to quash the finding of contempt in the case of R v Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (alias Tommy...
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...