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Year: 2018

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Weekly Digest: 6 March 2018

6KBW6th March 20186th March 2018
This week's Digest examines two cases. The first considers whether a tactical decision not to apply to have the jury discharged meant that the defendant's conviction for robbery was unsafe.  The second examines whether...
Corporate crime Crime Proceeds of crime

First unexplained wealth orders made by the High Court

Simon Ray6th March 20186th March 2018
Section 1 of the Criminal Finances Act 2017 added a new investigative tool to the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (sections 362A to 362I)(“the Act”). The new measure, known as...
Corporate crime Crime General International

Electronic data: does the long arm of the law reach across continents?

Miranda Hill26th February 201826th February 2018
When Lord Halsbury stated in 1891 ‘all crime is local’, he cannot have foreseen the complications and challenges created by technological advances.  Commonly understood notions of territoriality and jurisdictional scope...
General

Weekly Digest: 26 February 2018

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This week’s Digest examines two cases. In the first the Supreme Court considered the extent of the police’s positive obligation to investigate crimes reported by individuals. In the second, the...
General

Weekly Digest: 19 February 2018

6KBW18th February 2018
This week’s Digest considers a decision of the Divisional Court quashing a conviction on the basis that the evidence on which the conviction was based should have been excluded by...
General Public and civil law

Caparo revisited: Supreme Court clarifies scope of police duty of care

Paul Jarvis14th February 201815th February 2018
Last week, in a landmark judgment, the Supreme Court held that the police do not have blanket immunity from suit in respect of their conduct in investigating or preventing crime, but owe...
Court of Appeal Decisions General Weekly Digest

Weekly Digest: 12 February 2018

6KBW12th February 2018
In this week’s Digest, we examine two recent Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) judgments. In the first, the Court of Appeal confirmed the scope of the availability of a writ...
Extradition

The Forum Bar – a new lease of life?

Ben Lloyd6th February 2018
Yesterday Lauri Love won a famous victory in his on-going fight to resist extradition to the United States. In allowing his appeal, the High Court has breathed new life into...
Weekly Digest

Weekly Digest: 5 February 2018

6KBW6th February 2018
This week’s digest considers two Court of Appeal judgments and a judgment of the Divisional Court. The Court of Appeal held that the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014...
Crime General

Gross negligence manslaughter – an offence in flux 

Karl Laird31st January 2018
After a period of relative stability following the seminal judgment of the House of Lords in Adomako [1995] AC 171, gross negligence manslaughter has been considered by the Court of...

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