Weekly Digest: 29 July 2019
This week’s Digest includes seven judgments of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). AD considered the Court of Appeal’s jurisdiction to make a Criminal Behaviour Order in substitution of the...
Suspicious Activity Reports: The Law Commission Report
Money laundering is estimated to cost every UK household £255 each year. Enacted in 2003, Part 7 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (‘POCA’) represented a watershed in Parliament’s...
Deferred Prosecution Agreements and the Tesco outcome
In April 2017, Tesco Stores Limited entered a Deferred Prosecution Agreement with the Serious Fraud Office in respect of one offence of False Accounting. By January 2019, three individuals who...
Weekly Digest: 8th July 2019
Last week in Johnson v Westminster Magistrates’ Court, the Divisional Court considered whether to uphold the decision to issue a summons for three offences of misconduct in public office during the...
Weekly Digest: 4 July 2019
This week’s Digest considers six judgments, five of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and one of the Divisional Court. R v Ahmed and others was an appeal against conviction...
Hong Kong: a lesson in extradition relations
One of the leading global news stories in recent weeks has been the protests in Hong Kong over the proposed extradition bill, which would allow for extradition to mainland China...
Weekly Digest: 24 June 2019
This week’s Digest considers six judgments of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). R v Shepherd considered whether a conviction should be quashed where interview evidence relied on had not...
Weekly Digest: 17 June 2019
This week’s Digest considers three judgments. The first, from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division), addresses the issue of adjournments for pre-booked holidays and their impact on the fairness of...
Summer Reading 2019
This week’s blog contains a few suggestions for summer reading. Sun, sea and law: what more could you want for a perfect holiday? Robert Harris, An Officer and a Spy...
Weekly Digest: 3 June 2016
This week’s Digest considers three judgments of the High Court. The first rules on the positive obligation on the state under article 2 ECHR to protect the lives of vulnerable...