Criminal Law article
Case comment: Phillips v Mulcaire [2012] UKSC 28
By Dan Tench
The Supreme Court has had its first (and perhaps last) look at an issue arising from the phone…
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Case Comment: Assange v The Swedish Judicial Authority [2012] UKSC 22
Last week, the Supreme Court decided that Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden in connection with allegations of sexual…
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Case Comment: Lukaszewski v The District Court in Torun, Poland & other cases [2012] UKSC 20
By Anita Davies
As the furore surrounding the deportation of Abu Qatada demonstrated, you meddle with time limits at your peril.…
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Case Comment: R v Gnango [2011] UKSC 59
By Anita Davies
In the case preview for R v Gnango, it was suggested that the question facing the Supreme…
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Tail docking – the Animal Welfare Act 2006
The practice of tail docking is contentious. It involves the amputation of a puppy’s tail and is performed without…
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Case Comment: Gale v Serious Organised Crime Agency [2011] UKSC 49
In Gale v Serious Organised Crime Agency, the UK Supreme Court sent a simple message to Strasbourg: if we are duty bound to follow decisions of the ECtHR then, at least in this area, they need to be clearer. A new decision from the Grand Chamber on thi…
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A step-change in sentencing for manslaughter?
In Barrass [2011] EWCA Crim 2629 the court sentenced the defendant for an offence of manslaughter. The appellant was the…
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Prosecutorial errors and the overriding objective
In Payne v South Lakeland Magistrates’ Court, unreported, 30 June 2011, the administrative court considered what effect a prosecution error…
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Post traumatic stress disorder – admissibility
In R v E, unreported 27 June 2011, the Court of Appeal upheld a conviction for sex offences where the…
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Case Comment: R (GC) v The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis; R (C) v The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2011] UKSC21
The Association of Chief Police Officers guidelines on the retention of DNA and fingerprints provide, among other things, for the indefinite retention of biometric data which is acquired on the arrest of individuals against whom no further action is ta…
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