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: 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: 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...
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...
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...
Weekly Digest: 18 February 2019
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,...
Weekly Digest: 11 February 2019
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...
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...