Weekly Digest: 4 June 2018
This week’s Digest considers three sets of recent sentencing remarks. The first is a sentence imposed for manslaughter, the second for murder and assisting an offender, and the third for murder....
Weekly Digest: 29 May 2018
This week’s Digest includes four judgments of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division). The first was a renewed application for leave to appeal against conviction and an extension of time;...
Weekly Digest: 22 May 2018
This week’s Digest considers two decisions of the Divisional Court. The first of the two High Court decisions relates to the offence of obstructing a search or examination contrary to...
Weekly Digest: 18 May 2018
This week's digest considers two judgments of the High Court. In the first, the court considered whether a District Judge was incorrect to find that there was a real risk the...
Weekly Digest: 9 April 2018
This week’s Digest considers a judgment of the Divisional Court on the issue of standing for challenges to destruction orders under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991. (more…)
Weekly Digest: 27 March 2018
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...
Weekly Digest: 20 March 2018
This week’s Digest considers four judgments of the Court of Appeal. Two of the cases were referred to the Court of Appeal by the Attorney General on the basis that...
Weekly Digest: 12 March 2018
This week’s Digest considers two judgments of the Divisional Court. First, a judicial review challenge to a search warrant obtained under s. 23 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971,...
Weekly Digest: 6 March 2018
This week's Digest examines two cases. The first considers whether a tactical decision not to apply to have the jury discharged meant that the defendant's conviction for robbery was unsafe. The second examines whether...
Weekly Digest: 12 February 2018
In this week’s Digest, we examine two recent Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) judgments. In the first, the Court of Appeal confirmed the scope of the availability of a writ...