Weekly Digest: 2018 roundup
Welcome to the first Digest of 2019 - Happy New Year! This week's edition collates the most recent judgments handed down by the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) shortly before...
Weekly Digest: 17 December 2018
This week’s Digest considers three judgments: two from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and one from the Court of Appeal (Civil Division). The first asks whether the offence of...
Weekly Digest: 12 December 2018
This week’s Digest considers two judgments of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). In the first, the Court considered whether sentences imposed upon individuals for public nuisance convictions arising out...
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: 19 November 2018
This week’s Digest considers one judgment from the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) and one from the High Court. In the former the court considered whether pension policies should count...
Weekly Digest: 12 November 2018
This week’s Digest considers four judgments from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). Most importantly, the Court in R v. Johnson; R v. Burton [2018] EWCA Crim 2485 clarified the...
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...
Weekly Digest: 15 October 2018
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...
Weekly Digest: 8 October 2018
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...
Michaelmas Update (1): 24 September 2018
This week’s Digest is the first of two posts that consider judgments handed down during the vacation period. In part one, we focus on the Divisional Court’s decision that the...