‘Smartphones and social media are causing headaches for judges, a Court of Appeal judge has warned in a speech highlighting current challenges faced in jury trials.’
Law Society's Gazette, 27th November 2017
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Ivey (Appellant) v Genting Casinos (UK) Ltd t/a Crockfords (Respondent) [2017] UKSC 67 On appeal from [2016] EWCA Civ 1093. The Supreme Court has today unanimously declared that the second stage of the Ghosh test of dishonesty does not correctly represent the law, and that directions based upon it ought no longer to be given by judges to juries.’
White Collar Crime Blog, 28th October 2017
Source: www.2harecourt.com
‘The applicant was the mother of Mark Duggan who was shot dead by a police officer following the vehicle he was driving being stopped in a planned operation mounted after the receipt of intelligence that he had acquired a firearm intended for criminal use. The applicant was appealing against the dismissal of her application for judicial review of the verdict of lawful killing returning by the jury at the Inquest.’
Park Square Barristers, 4th April 2017
Source: www.parksquarebarristers.co.uk
‘The mother of Mark Duggan, whose fatal shooting by police in 2011 triggered riots across the country, is going to the court of appeal on Thursday in what she says is her “continuing search for justice” for her son.’
The Guardian, 2nd March 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The approach to contested non-conviction bad character evidence has changed in the wake of the Supreme Court’s judgment in the case of R v Mitchell [2016] UKSC 55.’
2 Hare Court, 5th January 2017
Source: www.2harecourt.com
R v Jogee (Appellant) [2016] UKSC 8 (YouTube)
Supreme Court, 18th February 2016
‘A former News of the World royal reporter who was found guilty of getting scoops from one of Prince Harry’s army colleagues has had his conviction quashed.’
The Guardian, 8th July 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Only defendants with a good character or deemed to be of effective good character were entitled to a good character direction. Where a defendant had a bad character, a judge was not obliged to give a good character direction; he or she had a discretion.’
WLR Daily, 16th April 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘The jury in the latest trial of journalists accused of illegally paying public officials has been told the judge will accept majority verdicts.’
BBC News, 16th April 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Regina v ABC and others; Regina v Sabey [2015] EWCA Crim 539; [2015] WLR (D) 146
‘In a prosecution for misconduct in public office it was necessary for the judge to make clear that the necessary conduct was not simply a breach of duty or a breach of trust and that the level was one where the conduct was calculated to injure the public interest so as to call for condemnation and punishment, the threshold of conduct being so serious that it amounted to an abuse of the public’s trust in the office holder, and being a high threshold. In relation to aiding and abetting the offence it was not necessary to establish that the office holder intended to cross the threshold: means of knowledge available to the defendant to make the necessary assessment of the seriousness of the principal’s conduct was sufficient. In relation to conspiracy to commit the offence it was not necessary that a defendant knew or intended that the misconduct concerned would meet the requisite threshold of seriousness.’
WLR Daily, 26th March 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘The family of Mark Duggan have lost their attempt to overturn an inquest verdict that the police shooting of their loved one was a lawful killing.’
The Guardian, 14th October 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The mother of Mark Duggan, whose fatal shooting by police provoked the 2011 riots, has lodged a legal challenge against the judge who presided over the inquest into her son’s death, which ended with a jury making a majority ruling that he was lawfully killed.’
The Guardian, 26th February 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A judge warned a jury on Wednesday that it was wrong to be prejudiced against anyone because of their expression of religious faith, as a Muslim defendant prepared to go on trial wearing a full face veil.’
The Guardian, 22nd January 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A man in charge of a fireworks display held on the night of a motorway crash in which seven people died has been cleared of breaching health and safety laws.’
BBC News, 10th December 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
R v Gul (Appellant) 2013] UKSC 64 | UKSC 2012/0124 (YouTube)
Supreme Court, 23rd October 2013
“R v Gul (Appellant) [2013] UKSC 64, 23 October 2013 – It is a platitude that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. It is for precisely this reason that the international community has not been able to agree on a definition of terrorism to be embedded in international law. The issue in this appeal was whether the definition of ‘terrorism’ in the UK Terrorism Act 2000 includes military attacks by non-state armed groups against national or international armed forces in a non-international armed conflict.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 23rd October 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Regina v Turbill; Regina v Broadway [2013] WLR (D) 279
“Where a defendant who had the care of someone who lacked capacity was charged with an offence of wilful neglect it was necessary for the prosecution to prove that the negligence was wilful in that either the defendant was aware of the consequences of the negligence or could not care less as to the consequences.”
WLR Daily, 12th July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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