“Prosecutors are expected to decide at a high-level meeting today to seek a retrial of seven men on allegations of involvement in an al-Qaeda plot to attack transatlantic airliners.”
The Times, 10th September 2008
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“Prosecutors were considering today whether seven men accused of plotting mass murder on board transatlantic aircraft should face a retrial after a jury failed to reach verdicts.”
The Independent, 9th September 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Police and prosecutors were locked in crisis meetings last night after what they believed to be the strongest terrorism case ever presented to a court was rejected by a jury.”
The Times, 9th September 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Three men were yesterday convicted of conspiring to commit mass murder through suicide bomb explosions, but a jury failed to reach a verdict on the allegation they were part of the biggest terrorist plot since the September 11 attacks.”
The Guardian, 9th September 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The mastermind behind a ‘Fagin-style’ gang who stole £1million of watches from London jewellers has been jailed for 12 years.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th September 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“One of Britain’s most wanted men will be extradited to the UK this week after being arrested in Benidorm, southern Spain. Bobby Spiers will be interviewed by Manchester police in connection with a bungled underworld hit in a Salford pub that left two men dead.”
The Guardian, 3rd August 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
R v Sivaraman; [2008] WLR (D) 256
“There was no rule of law to the effect that, for the purposes of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, the amount of the benefit to each of the co-conspirators to a fraud must be taken as the whole amount of the loss attributable to the fraud: the amount of the benefit might vary as between the co-conspirators, and was to be determined on a common sense appreciation of the particular facts of the case.”
WLR Daily, 25th July 2008
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“Five men jailed for life for plotting a series of bomb attacks to rival the 9/11 New York atrocities lost challenges against their convictions today.”
The Independent, 23rd July 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Regina v Kenning Regina v Blackshaw Regina v Fenwick
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
“An agreement to aid and abet an offence did not constitute a criminal conspiracy.”
The Times, 10th July 2008
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R v Kenning; R v Blackshaw; R v Fenwick; [2008] WLR (D) 212
“An agreement to aid and abet an offence was not capable of constituting a criminal conspiracy.”
WLR Daily, 26th June 2008
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“A company boss who swindled the Ministry of Defence (MoD) out of nearly £425,000 has been jailed for three and a half years.”
BBC News, 30th April 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A woman who lured a faith healer back to Luton, where he was later murdered, has been jailed for two years.”
BBC News, 24th April 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Four men serving at least 40 years behind bars for planning the failed 21 July London suicide bombings failed today in a Court of Appeal bid to challenge their convictions.”
The Independent, 23rd April 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The government today failed to extend a four-and-a-half-year jail sentence for a dentist from east London who plotted terrorist activities overseas.”
The Guardian, 22nd April 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A gang that cheated thousands of people in a £6m holiday scam have been jailed for up to seven years each.”
BBC News, 17th April 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Four men and a woman have been convicted of a £10m plot to kidnap a businessman by seducing him.”
BBC News, 28th March 2008
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Revenue and Customs Comrs v Total Network SL [2008] UKHL 19; WLR (D) 80
“No intention that the Revenue and Customs Commissioners should be barred from recovering damages for conspiracy in the form of a carousel fraud was to be attributed to the legislature in the enactment of the scheme in the Value Added Tax Act 1994. Criminal conduct could constitute unlawful means and be actionable as conspiracy whether or not it would be separately actionable if committed by an individual.”
WLR Daily, 12th March 2008
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Revenue and Customs Commissioners v Total Network SL
House of Lords
“Nothing in the Value Added Tax 1994 prevented the Revenue and Customs Commissioners from recovering damages for conspiracy against a participant in a carousel fraud; criminal conduct was actionable as conspiracy whether or not it would be actionable as a separate tort if committed by an individual.”
The Times, 13th March 2008
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“A legal wrangle has broken out over an interview with Simon Mann, the Old Etonian and former SAS officer who is in prison in Equatorial Guinea on charges of plotting a coup in the oil-rich African country.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th March 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The July 21 bombers will appeal against their life sentence today having been found guilty for conspiracy to murder.”
Daily Telegraph, 5th March 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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