Weekly Digest: 24 June 2019
This week’s Digest considers six judgments of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). R v Shepherd considered whether a conviction should be quashed where interview evidence relied on had not...
Weekly Digest: 17 June 2019
This week’s Digest considers three judgments. The first, from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division), addresses the issue of adjournments for pre-booked holidays and their impact on the fairness of...
Summer Reading 2019
This week’s blog contains a few suggestions for summer reading. Sun, sea and law: what more could you want for a perfect holiday? Robert Harris, An Officer and a Spy...
Weekly Digest: 3 June 2016
This week’s Digest considers three judgments of the High Court. The first rules on the positive obligation on the state under article 2 ECHR to protect the lives of vulnerable...
To be, or not to be, a judicial authority? That is the question…
The European arrest warrant scheme was heralded as the great simplifier; extradition between States was to be abolished and replaced by a streamlined process of surrender between judicial authorities. It was...