Weekly Digest: 30 July 2018
This week’s Digest considers four judgments. The first is from the Supreme Court, and relates to s. 90C of the Representation of the People Act 1983. The second and third...
European Production and Preservation Orders
On 17 April 2018, the European Commission issued a proposal for the introduction of ‘European Production and Preservation Orders for electronic evidence in criminal matters’. The aim is to make...
Weekly Digest: 23 July 2018
This week’s Digest considers five judgments. The first two were handed down by the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and relate to the alternative verdict of infanticide under the Infanticide...
Making applications to the ECtHR: clearing the admissibility hurdle
Around 95% of applications to the European Court of Human Rights are declared inadmissible or struck out without substantive consideration on their merits. This may be because an application is...
Case comment: SFO v Saleh [2018] EWHC 1012
In SFO v Saleh, the Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the SFO in an appeal against a property freezing order for £4.4 million. This case illustrates the willingness and...
A Coronial Court of Appeal – An opportunity missed?
As the five year anniversary of the coming into force of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 approaches (25th July 2018), and coronial proceedings are increasingly at the forefront of...
Are politicians so bad at asking questions?
After Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before a Congressional Committee, Jonathan Freedland, a thoughtful and well-respected commentator, wrote an opinion piece entitled, “Zuckerberg got off lightly. Why are politicians so bad at...
Weekly Digest: 4 June 2018
This week’s Digest considers three sets of recent sentencing remarks. The first is a sentence imposed for manslaughter, the second for murder and assisting an offender, and the third for murder....
Weekly Digest: 29 May 2018
This week’s Digest includes four judgments of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). The first was a renewed application for leave to appeal against conviction and an extension of time;...
Mutual trust: 20-year anniversary
Mutual trust and recognition has been the foundation of European judicial cooperation for 20 years. Having been raised during the Presidency Conclusions of the Cardiff European Council in June 1998,...