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...
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...
This week’s Digest considers three judgments from the High Court. The first of these considers a challenge to the first Unexplained Wealth Order made under s.362A(1) of the Proceeds of...
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...
In this week’s Digest, there were two interesting decisions handed down by the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). In the first, a conviction for conspiracy to import cannabis was quashed...
In this week's Digest, the Supreme Court gave judgment in three cases on whether diplomats are immune from claims for their employees, the radical cleric Anjem Choudary was refused application...
In this week's Digest, the Court of Appeal quashed a conviction on the grounds that the jury had access to transcripts of oral evidence which they should not have, and...
In this week's Digest the Court of Appeal quashed a conviction for kidnapping on the basis that hearsay evidence should not have been admitted under section 116 of the Criminal...
In this week's Digest, the Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal concerning the correct interpretation of section 76(5A) of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, which contains the defence...
In this week's Digest, the High Court gave reasons for previously granting the continuation of an injunction preventing the disclosure of confidential information relating to the treatment of children at...