The Forum Bar – a new lease of life?
Yesterday Lauri Love won a famous victory in his on-going fight to resist extradition to the United States. In allowing his appeal, the High Court has breathed new life into...
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Weekly Digest: 5 February 2018
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...
Gross negligence manslaughter – an offence in flux
After a period of relative stability following the seminal judgment of the House of Lords in Adomako [1995] AC 171, gross negligence manslaughter has been considered by the Court of...
Weekly Digest: 30 January 2018
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...
Householder self-defence: an issue with continuous incidents?
At a recent trial, the Crown Court had to consider whether the householder amendment to self-defence applied to all force used in a violent incident that began inside a home...
Weekly Digest: 22 January 2018
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...
No smoke without fire: revisiting the Crown exemption rule
When is the Crown bound by a statute that does not expressly refer to it? This was the question that arose for consideration by the Supreme Court in R (on...
Weekly Digest: 15 January 2018
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...
Failing to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion: note on Government’s guidance
The Criminal Finances Act 2017 introduced two new offences (the first relating to the UK and the other to a foreign jurisdiction), each committed where a relevant body (those most...
Weekly Digest: 8 January 2018
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...