Weekly Digest: 21 October 2019
This week’s edition considers seven judgments; two of the Supreme Court, one of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and four of the High Court. In Routier and another v Commissioners...
Weekly Digest: 14 October 2019
This week’s Digest considers four judgments of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). In R v Wood the court considers the proper approach to sentencing an offence of encouraging or assisting the...
Weekly Digest: 30 September 2019
This week’s digest considers five judgments; two of the Supreme Court, two of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and one of the Court of Appeal (Civil Division). In R (Miller)...
Weekly Digest: 23 September 2019
This week’s digest considers two judgments, both from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). R. v Aziz (Ayman) concerned a judicial review challenge, by a young offender convicted of the murder and...
Weekly Digest: 16 September 2019
This week’s digest considers three judgments; two of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and one of the High Court in Northern Ireland. In Twigg the court consider the admissibility of blood...
Weekly Digest: 1 September 2019
This week’s Digest considers four judgments: two from the Court of Appeal and two from the Divisional Court. In the first, the court considered an appeal against a manslaughter conviction...
Weekly Digest: 5 August 2019
This week’s Digest considers five judgments; two handed down by the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and three by the Divisional Court. The issue in Le Brocq was whether the...
Weekly Digest: 22nd July 2019
This week’s Digest considers two judgments of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). In Roberts the Court discussed the question of whether an applicant previously found unfit to plead could...
Weekly Digest: 15th July 2019
This week’s Digest considers one judgment of the High Court and two of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). The first, Torpey, assesses the decision of a CPS reviewing lawyer...
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...