Weekly Digest: 29 April 2019
This week’s Digest considers three Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) judgments from the beginning of April; the first is an appeal against sentence imposed for murder; in the second, the...
Weekly Digest: 15 April 2019
This week’s Digest considers three judgments: two from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and one from the High Court. First, the Court in R v AJ considered whether terrorism...
Weekly Digest: 8 April
This week’s Digest considers five cases, four of which were handed down by the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and one by the Divisional Court. The issue in the first...
Death, driving and drugs: anomalies in sentencing
A handful of recent cases have thrown into sharp relief the shortcomings of the Definitive Guideline Causing Death by Driving, that was issued by the Sentencing Guidelines Council, as it...
Weekly Digest: 1 April 2019
This week’s Digest considers four judgments. The first three were handed down by the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). The first addresses the mutual recognition of confiscation orders pursuant to...