Weekly Digest: 25 May 2020
This week's edition considers one judgment of the Supreme Court and three of the High Court. In R v Adams the Supreme Court considered whether the Secretary of State had to personally...
Overseas Production Orders – A New Tool to Obtain Foreign Electronic Evidence
Introduction For years, prosecutors and defenders have acted in the confident knowledge that obtaining certain types of important electronic evidence from overseas in time for use at trial has been...
Applications to dismiss – what’s the charge?
On 28 February 2020, an Old Bailey jury acquitted Roger Jenkins, Tom Kalaris and Richard Boath of offences of conspiracy to commit fraud during a period when they were senior...
Weekly Digest: 4 May 2020
This week’s edition considers one judgment of the Supreme Court, four of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division), and two of the Divisional Court. In AM (Zimbabwe) v Secretary of State...
The impact of Coronavirus, part 7: the possible next steps for the jury system
In a series of Blog posts, members of 6KBW have identified a number of ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has led to change in the administration of criminal justice,...
Weekly Digest: 27 April 2020
This week's edition considers two judgments from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). In Abbott and others the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) gave guidance as to how to calculate the appropriate...
The impact of Coronavirus, part 6: sentencing at a time of national emergency
As a result of the restrictions on movement imposed due to the current pandemic, the criminal justice system is operating little more than what might be colloquially referred to as...
Weekly Digest: 20 April 2020
This week's edition considers one judgment of the Divisional Court. In Re Ojebode the Court considered an application for a certificate of inadequacy under section 83 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988....
The impact of Coronavirus, part 5: the Coronavirus Act 2020
As Hippocrates remarked at the height of the Plague of Athens in 430BC, desperate times call for desperate measures[1]. The deadly coronavirus has brought forth desperate measures almost everywhere, and...
The impact of Coronavirus, part 3: the emergency criminal offences
The current pandemic has led to a flood of emergency legislation. This post deals with The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020 (SI 2020 No. 350) made under the...