Weekly Digest: 8 January 2018
In this, the first Weekly Digest of 2018, the Court of Appeal considered the relevance of mental disorders to the defence of loss of control; and allowed an appeal against...
Weekly Digest: 20 December 2017
In this week’s Digest, the last of 2017, the Court of Appeal allowed an appeal against the refusal of a claim for JR against the IPCC, holding both that the...
Weekly Digest: 11 December 2017
In this week's Digest, the Supreme Court considered the limitation period for bringing a claim under the Human Rights Act 1998 and the Divisional Court considered whether judicial review of...
Weekly Digest: 4 December 2017
In this week’s Digest, there were two interesting decisions handed down by the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). In the first, a conviction for conspiracy to import cannabis was quashed...
Weekly Digest: 27 November 2017
In this week’s Digest, the High Court held that the Magistrates’ Court possesses no power to extend the time limit to apply to state a case under s.111(2) of the...
Weekly Digest: 20 November 2017
In this week's Digest, the Court of Appeal quashed one of the twelve convictions of the entertainer Rolf Harris; Sir Brian Leveson P observed that the Ghosh test was unlikely...
Weekly Digest: 13 November 2017
In this Weekly Digest, the Court of Appeal considered jury directions in two cases, one relating to a conviction for gross negligence manslaughter, the other to directions and summations that...
Weekly Digest: 6 November 2017
In this week's Digest, the Supreme Court considered the obligation to provide rehabilitation during extended sentences and the Court of Appeal considered whether nitrous oxide is an ‘exempted substance’ for...
Weekly Digest: 23 October 2017
In this week's Digest, the Supreme Court gave judgment in three cases on whether diplomats are immune from claims for their employees, the radical cleric Anjem Choudary was refused application...
Weekly Digest: 16 October 2017
In this week's Digest, the Court of Appeal quashed a conviction on the grounds that the jury had access to transcripts of oral evidence which they should not have, and...