Weekly Digest: 1 April 2019
This week’s Digest considers four judgments. The first three were handed down by the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). The first addresses the mutual recognition of confiscation orders pursuant to...
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 March 2019
This week’s Digest considers three judgments from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). First, in R v Coker the court considered whether the leading criminal law textbooks were correct that the...
Weekly Digest: 11 March 2019
This week’s Digest considers six judgments, one from the Supreme Court and five from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). In Konecny, the Supreme Court considered whether an individual who had...
Weekly Digest: 25 February 2019
This week’s Digest considers four judgments from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). In R v Cheeseman the court considered whether the householder defence was available to a soldier who...
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: 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: 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...