Weekly Digest: 28 January 2019
This week’s Digest considers three judgments: one from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and two from the High Court. The first considers the defence afforded to police constables under...
Weekly Digest: 21 January 2018
This week’s Digest considers three judgments: one from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and two from the High Court. The first considers whether s.55(2) of the Data Protection Act...
Weekly Digest: 12 December 2018
This week’s Digest considers two judgments of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). In the first, the Court considered whether sentences imposed upon individuals for public nuisance convictions arising out...
Weekly Digest: 3 December 2018
This week’s Digest contains one judgment from the Supreme Court and three from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). The first considers whether the UK’s extended determinate sentence regime is...
Weekly Digest: 12 November 2018
This week’s Digest considers four judgments from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). Most importantly, the Court in R v. Johnson; R v. Burton [2018] EWCA Crim 2485 clarified the...
Weekly Digest: 6 November 2018
This week’s Digest considers three judgments; one from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and two from the High Court. The first considers whether the conduct of the judge in...
Weekly Digest: 15 October 2018
This week’s Digest considers two judgments. The first, handed down by the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division), considers the interpretation of s, 4(2) of the Theft Act 1968 and the...
Weekly Digest: 6 August 2018
This week’s Digest considers four judgments. The first was handed down by the Supreme Court and concerned an Enhanced Criminal Record Certificate and rights under article 8 ECHR. The remaining...
Weekly Digest: 29 May 2018
This week’s Digest includes four judgments of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). The first was a renewed application for leave to appeal against conviction and an extension of time;...
Weekly Digest: 27 March 2018
This week’s digest considers three judgments, two of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and one of the Divisional Court. The first relates to memory refreshing and the whether the...