In this week’s Digest, the Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal concerning the correct interpretation of section 76(5A) of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, which contains the defence of self-defence in so-called “householder cases”, the High Court considered extradition to the Czech Republic on the basis that it would be unjust or oppressive, and  HHJ Pringle QC, the Recorder of Oxford, sentences a student at the University of Oxford for stabbing her partner in the leg.

R v Ray [2017] EWCA Crim 1391

Judgment (available here) handed down by the Thomas LCJ in the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) on 26 September 2017.

Concerning section 76(5A) of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, which contains the defence of self-defence in so-called “householder cases”. Appeal dismissed.

 

Konecny v District Court Czech Republic [2017] EWHC 2360 (Admin)

Judgment (available here) handed down by Sir Wyn Williams in the High Court on 27 September 2017.

Concerning an appeal against extradition to Czech Republic to serve an eight-year prison sentence for fraud offences. Appeal dismissed.

 

Sentencing remarks: R v Lavinia Woodward, HHJ Ian Pringle QC, Oxford Crown Court (26.09.17)

In October 2016, Lavinia Woodward, who had both drug and alcohol addictions, began a relationship with a Cambridge University student. In December 2016, he visited Woodward at her accommodation at Christ Church, Oxford University. She had clearly been drinking and, as the evening progressed, her behaviour became increasingly volatile. At one stage, Woodward’s partner contacted her mother, over Skype, to seek her assistance about what to do with her. When she discovered this, she became extremely angry, and stabbed him in the leg with a bread knife. Two of his fingers also received cuts. Woodward then started to turn the knife on herself, and her partner had to disarm her. The wounds that he suffered, though, were relatively minor. The cuts to his fingers were treated at the scene, with steri-strips, and the wound to his leg was closed with three stitches. In April 2017, Woodward pleaded guilty to one offence of unlawful wounding.

 

Other news

Man accused of conspiring to kidnap British model to be extradited to Italy (29.09.17)

Sentences for animal cruelty to increase ten-fold to five years in prison (30.09.17)

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