Weekly Digest: 9 March 2020
This week’s edition considers two judgments of the Court of Appeal and one of the Divisional Court. In R v Ngoie the Court considered an appeal against conviction. The primary issue considered...
Weekly Digest: 2 March 2020
This week’s edition considers one judgment of the European Court of Human Rights, one of the Supreme Court and one of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). In Guaghran v UK the...
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...
Weekly Digest: 26 January 2020
This week’s edition considers two judgments from the Court of Appeal (Civil Division). In R (Michael) v Governor of Whitemoor Prison a prisoner appealed against a decision that he should attend a...
Weekly Digest: 21 January 2020
This week’s edition considers three judgments from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). In Thomas the Court of Appeal considers an appeal against conviction principally based on the judge's decision to reserve...