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: 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: 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: 24 June 2019
This week’s Digest considers six judgments of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). R v Shepherd considered whether a conviction should be quashed where interview evidence relied on had not...
Weekly Digest: 17 June 2019
This week’s Digest considers three judgments. The first, from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division), addresses the issue of adjournments for pre-booked holidays and their impact on the fairness of...
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: 28 May 2019
After a busy week in the courts this week’s Digest considers four judgments from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and one from the Court of Appeal (Civil Division). The...
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: 13 May 2019
This week’s Digest considers three judgments from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). In R v Braithwaite the Court considered whether a trial judge should have left a different version...
Weekly Digest: 8 April
This week’s Digest considers five cases, four of which were handed down by the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and one by the Divisional Court. The issue in the first...