Age and responsibility: an unresolved question
In its May 2019 report, ‘Torture in the UK: update report’ the Equality and Human Rights Commission (‘EHRC’) has raised again whether the Criminal Justice System in England and Wales...
Weekly Digest: 13 May 2019
This week’s Digest considers three judgments from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). In R v Braithwaite the Court considered whether a trial judge should have left a different version...
Weekly Digest: 29 April 2019
This week’s Digest considers three Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) judgments from the beginning of April; the first is an appeal against sentence imposed for murder; in the second, the...
Weekly Digest: 15 April 2019
This week’s Digest considers three judgments: two from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and one from the High Court. First, the Court in R v AJ considered whether terrorism...
Weekly Digest: 8 April
This week’s Digest considers five cases, four of which were handed down by the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and one by the Divisional Court. The issue in the first...
Death, driving and drugs: anomalies in sentencing
A handful of recent cases have thrown into sharp relief the shortcomings of the Definitive Guideline Causing Death by Driving, that was issued by the Sentencing Guidelines Council, as it...
The House of Lords’ Report on the Bribery Act 2010: A Glimpse Into the Future of Economic Crime?
On 14 March 2019, the Select Committee on the Bribery Act 2010 published its Report in which it makes a number of conclusions and recommendations.1 The Committee was given the task...
Weekly Digest: 25 March 2019
This week’s Digest considers five judgments. The first is a decision of the Privy Council relating to a conviction under the Prevention of Corruption Act 2002 (Mauritius). The second, third...
Court of Appeal considers approach to entrapment defence
In Syed [2018] EWCA Crim 2809 the Court of Appeal restated the approach that ought to be taken when a defendant applies to stay proceedings as an abuse of process on...
Weekly Digest: 11 March 2019
This week’s Digest considers six judgments, one from the Supreme Court and five from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). In Konecny, the Supreme Court considered whether an individual who had...