Weekly Digest: 24 February 2020
This week’s edition considers one judgment from the Supreme Court and one from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). In the matter of an application by Deborah McGuinness for Judicial...
‘Full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing’?
It has long been recognized in English law that it is no defence to a breach of an order of the court to assert that the order itself was invalid [1]....
Weekly Digest: 17 February 2020
This week’s edition considers one judgment from the Supreme Court, three judgments from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division), two judgments from the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) and one...
The luck of the law – when is criminal conduct a matter of concern to the international community?
Certain crimes transcend the territorial confines of any State and become a matter of concern to the world as a whole. In those cases, where a domestic prosecution is not...
Weekly Digest: 10 February 2020
This week's edition contains two judgments of the Divisional Court and one of the Crown Court. In Director of the Serious Fraud Office v Airbus SE the Crown Court approved...
Weekly Digest: 3 February 2020
This week's edition contains two judgments from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division), one from the Divisional Court and one from the magistrates' courts. In Reece the Court of Appeal dismissed an...