In this week’s Digest, we examine two recent Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) judgments. In the first, the Court of Appeal confirmed the scope of the availability of a writ...
After a period of relative stability following the seminal judgment of the House of Lords in Adomako [1995] AC 171, gross negligence manslaughter has been considered by the Court of...
When is the Crown bound by a statute that does not expressly refer to it? This was the question that arose for consideration by the Supreme Court in R (on...
The Criminal Finances Act 2017 introduced two new offences (the first relating to the UK and the other to a foreign jurisdiction), each committed where a relevant body (those most...
Non-disclosure in criminal proceedings has long been recognised as a “potent source of injustice” (per Glidewell J in R v Ward [1993] 1 WLR 619, the successful appeal against convictions...
The US special investigation into ‘Russian influence’ in the 2016 US Presidential election alleges that Paul Manafort acted as a “foreign agent” and that he laundered the proceeds of that...
In this second of two posts (the first can be found here), the criticism of the Ghosh test is considered, together with a brief outline of the concept of dishonesty...
This blog has previously featured a summary of the landmark judgment in Ivey v Genting Casinos (UK) Ltd [2017] UKSC 67 and a post examining the dishonesty test now to be applied in criminal...
The concept of a “dwelling” has some significance in the criminal law. A burglar who commits their crime in a dwelling is sentenced more harshly than if they were to...