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...
Weekly Digest: 25 June 2018
This week’s Digest considers three judgments of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). The first is an appeal relating to the Court’s jurisdiction to re-open a final determination; the issue...
Voluntary Euthanasia, Individual Autonomy and the Chain of Causation
The facts of Wallace [2018] EWCA Crim 690 are as tragic as they are unusual. The victim, Mr van Dongen, and the defendant, had formerly been in a long-term relationship....
Weekly Digest: 21 June 2018
This week's Digest considers two cases. In the first, the Court of Appeal considered whether a trial judge was correct to order reporting restrictions in a fraud case involving a...
A Coronial Court of Appeal – An opportunity missed?
As the five year anniversary of the coming into force of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 approaches (25th July 2018), and coronial proceedings are increasingly at the forefront of...
Are politicians so bad at asking questions?
After Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before a Congressional Committee, Jonathan Freedland, a thoughtful and well-respected commentator, wrote an opinion piece entitled, “Zuckerberg got off lightly. Why are politicians so bad at...
Weekly Digest: 4 June 2018
This week’s Digest considers three sets of recent sentencing remarks. The first is a sentence imposed for manslaughter, the second for murder and assisting an offender, and the third for murder....
Weekly Digest: 29 May 2018
This week’s Digest includes four judgments of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). The first was a renewed application for leave to appeal against conviction and an extension of time;...
Mutual trust: 20-year anniversary
Mutual trust and recognition has been the foundation of European judicial cooperation for 20 years. Having been raised during the Presidency Conclusions of the Cardiff European Council in June 1998,...