Weekly Digest: 19 November 2018
This week’s Digest considers one judgment from the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) and one from the High Court. In the former the court considered whether pension policies should count...
Weekly Digest: 12 November 2018
This week’s Digest considers four judgments from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). Most importantly, the Court in R v. Johnson; R v. Burton [2018] EWCA Crim 2485 clarified the...
Weekly Digest: 6 November 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 the conduct of the judge in...
Weekly Digest: 29 October
This week’s Digest considers four recent judgments of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). The first is an appeal against conviction, where the issue was whether the defence of loss...
Weekly Digest: 22 October 2018
This week’s Digest considers three judgments. In the first, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that the uncertainty ensuing from Brexit does not require EU member states...
Weekly Digest: 15 October 2018
This week’s Digest considers two judgments. The first, handed down by the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division), considers the interpretation of s, 4(2) of the Theft Act 1968 and the...
Weekly Digest: 8 October 2018
This week’s Digest considers three judgments from the High Court. The first of these considers a challenge to the first Unexplained Wealth Order made under s.362A(1) of the Proceeds of...
Michaelmas Update (2): 1 October 2018
This week’s Digest is the final post collating judgments released during the vacation period. This week includes five judgments, all handed down by the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). The...
Michaelmas Update (1): 24 September 2018
This week’s Digest is the first of two posts that consider judgments handed down during the vacation period. In part one, we focus on the Divisional Court’s decision that the...
Weekly Digest: 20 August 2018
This week's digest considers one Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) judgment, the last handed down before the vacation. In it, the Court considered appeals against conviction for conspiracy to import...