Weekly Digest: 18 February 2019
This week’s Digest considers three judgments. In R v D the Court of Appeal considered the definition of a foldable pocketknife under section 139(2) of the Criminal Justice Act 1988,...
Weekly Digest: 11 February 2019
This week’s Digest considers five judgments, four of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and one of the Divisional Court. R v A considered the extent to which time spent...
Weekly Digest: 4 February 2019
This week’s Digest considers four judgments, two of the Supreme Court and two of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). The first Supreme Court judgment addresses the legality of the...
Weekly Digest: 28 January 2019
This week’s Digest considers three judgments: one from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and two from the High Court. The first considers the defence afforded to police constables under...
Weekly Digest: 21 January 2018
This week’s Digest considers three judgments: one from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and two from the High Court. The first considers whether s.55(2) of the Data Protection Act...
Weekly Digest: 2018 roundup
Welcome to the first Digest of 2019 - Happy New Year! This week's edition collates the most recent judgments handed down by the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) shortly before...
Weekly Digest: 17 December 2018
This week’s Digest considers three judgments: two from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and one from the Court of Appeal (Civil Division). The first asks whether the offence of...
Weekly Digest: 12 December 2018
This week’s Digest considers two judgments of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). In the first, the Court considered whether sentences imposed upon individuals for public nuisance convictions arising out...
Weekly Digest: 3 December 2018
This week’s Digest contains one judgment from the Supreme Court and three from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). The first considers whether the UK’s extended determinate sentence regime is...
Weekly Digest: 26 November 2018
This week’s Digest considers two recent judgments, one from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and one from the Divisional Court. In the former, the Court of Appeal considered whether...