Category: Weekly Digest

This week’s digest considers two Court of Appeal judgments and a judgment of the Divisional Court. The Court of Appeal held that the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014...

This week’s digest considers two Supreme Court cases and a decision of the Divisional Court. The Supreme Court, in the first case, considered the extent to which a court can...

This week’s Digest discusses two recent Court of Appeal judgments. The first relates to the admissibility of evidence of a defendant’s bad character under the provisions of s. 101 of...

In this week’s Digest, we consider three Court of Appeal judgments handed down in recent months on topics including whether a sentence that did not take into account the time...

In this, the first Weekly Digest of 2018, the Court of Appeal considered the relevance of mental disorders to the defence of loss of control; and allowed an appeal against...

In this week’s Digest, the last of 2017, the Court of Appeal allowed an appeal against the refusal of a claim for JR against the IPCC, holding both that the...

In this week's Digest, the Supreme Court considered the limitation period for bringing a claim under the Human Rights Act 1998 and the Divisional Court considered whether judicial review of...

In this week’s Digest, the High Court held that the Magistrates’ Court possesses no power to extend the time limit to apply to state a case under s.111(2) of the...