Weekly Digest: 28 May 2019
After a busy week in the courts this week’s Digest considers four judgments from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and one from the Court of Appeal (Civil Division). The...
Weekly Digest: 22 May 2019
This week’s Digest considers three judgments. In R (Privacy International) the Supreme Court assessed whether an ouster clause shielding the Investigatory Powers Tribunal from judicial review was effective. In Kuddus the...
Weekly Digest: 13 May 2019
This week’s Digest considers three judgments from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). In R v Braithwaite the Court considered whether a trial judge should have left a different version...
Weekly Digest: 29 April 2019
This week’s Digest considers three Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) judgments from the beginning of April; the first is an appeal against sentence imposed for murder; in the second, the...
Weekly Digest: 15 April 2019
This week’s Digest considers three judgments: two from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and one from the High Court. First, the Court in R v AJ considered whether terrorism...
Weekly Digest: 8 April
This week’s Digest considers five cases, four of which were handed down by the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and one by the Divisional Court. The issue in the first...
Weekly Digest: 1 April 2019
This week’s Digest considers four judgments. The first three were handed down by the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). The first addresses the mutual recognition of confiscation orders pursuant to...
Weekly Digest: 25 March 2019
This week’s Digest considers five judgments. The first is a decision of the Privy Council relating to a conviction under the Prevention of Corruption Act 2002 (Mauritius). The second, third...
Weekly Digest: 18 March 2019
This week’s Digest considers three judgments from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). First, in R v Coker the court considered whether the leading criminal law textbooks were correct that the...
Weekly Digest: 11 March 2019
This week’s Digest considers six judgments, one from the Supreme Court and five from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). In Konecny, the Supreme Court considered whether an individual who had...