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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This week’s Digest considers three judgments. In R v D the Court of Appeal considered the definition of a foldable pocketknife under section 139(2) of the Criminal Justice Act 1988,...
This week’s Digest considers five judgments, four of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and one of the Divisional Court. R v A considered the extent to which time spent...
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...
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...