The Brexit Transition Agreement – What it Means for Criminal Justice Cooperation
On 19 March 2018, the EU and the UK agreed the terms of a transition period (referred to by the UK as ‘an implementation period’) that will extend the time...
Weekly Digest: 2 April 2018
This week’s Digest considers a number of cases, all judgments handed down by the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). Items of particular interest include: Hayes, where the court considered whether...
Weekly Digest: 27 March 2018
This week’s digest considers three judgments, two of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and one of the Divisional Court. The first relates to memory refreshing and the whether the...
Seizing Cryptocurrency – R. v Teresko (Sergejs) (2)
In this second of two posts on the seizure and conversion of cryptocurrency as addressed in the case of R v Teresko (Sergejs) (Kingston Crown Court: HHJ Lodder QC, 11...
Weekly Digest: 20 March 2018
This week’s Digest considers four judgments of the Court of Appeal. Two of the cases were referred to the Court of Appeal by the Attorney General on the basis that...
Metropolitan Police Commissioner v DSD: an avalanche of new claims for investigatory failings?
The decision In the less-publicised John Worboys-related case of recent weeks, Metropolitan Police Commissioner v DSD [2018] UKSC 11 (available here), the Supreme Court has made a decision with potentially much...
UK “Magnitsky provisions” – time for a change?
Since the events that unfolded in Salisbury last week, there have been calls to introduce into UK law a version of the so-called "Magnitsky Act" that was enacted in the...
Electronic data: does the long arm of the law reach across continents?
When Lord Halsbury stated in 1891 ‘all crime is local’, he cannot have foreseen the complications and challenges created by technological advances. Commonly understood notions of territoriality and jurisdictional scope...
Weekly Digest: 26 February 2018
This week’s Digest examines two cases. In the first the Supreme Court considered the extent of the police’s positive obligation to investigate crimes reported by individuals. In the second, the...
Weekly Digest: 19 February 2018
This week’s Digest considers a decision of the Divisional Court quashing a conviction on the basis that the evidence on which the conviction was based should have been excluded by...