Weekly Digest: 16 December 2019
This week’s edition considers one judgment of the Court of Appeal. In R. v McCarthy (Brendan Patrick) the Court considered an appeal against a sentence imposed following the appellant’s plea of guilty...
Weekly Digest: 9 December 2019
This week’s edition considers four judgments; two of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division), and two of the Divisional Court. In Reynolds the Court of Appeal considered the proper approach to summing-up and...
Causation and Cleopatra’s nose
A nose can be a curious thing: so too causation. I In his Pensées (1669), published from an array of notes following his death, Blaise Pascal expressed a characteristically interesting view...
Weekly Digest: 2 December 2019
This week’s edition considers seven judgments; one of the Supreme Court, three of the Court of Appeal, and two of the Divisional Court. In R (on the application of Hemmati...
Magnitsky amendments: can the state recover the ‘innocent’ profits of torture?
Introduction The state now has power to forfeit, in civil recovery proceedings, the proceeds of conduct taking place overseas which “constitutes” or is “connected with” a gross human rights abuse...