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: 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...
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: 22 May 2019
This week’s Digest considers three judgments. In R (Privacy International) the Supreme Court assessed whether an ouster clause shielding the Investigatory Powers Tribunal from judicial review was effective. In Kuddus the...
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: 4 February 2019
This week’s Digest considers four judgments, two of the Supreme Court and two of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). The first Supreme Court judgment addresses the legality of the...
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: 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: 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...