“Secret government files from the final years of the British empire are still being concealed despite a pledge by William Hague, the foreign secretary, that they would be declassified and opened to the public.”
The Guardian, 26th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Current policy on illegal drugs creates victims of crime and more prisoners at a cost to taxpayers, the Prison Governors Association (PGA) has argued.”
BBC News, 25th April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Regina v Morris (Daryl): [2013] WLR (D) 140
“Where a defendant raised the defence of using reasonable force in the prevention of crime, under section 3(1) of the Criminal Law Act 1967, it would be necessary for the jury to focus first on what the defendant honestly believed were the facts before using their conclusions as to that belief to go on to decide whether the defendant had reasonable grounds for suspecting an offence was being committed and whether the force he used to prevent that crime had been reasonable.”
WLR Daily, 16th April 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Greater Manchester Police is the first force to treat offences against subculture groups as hate crimes.”
The Independent, 3rd April 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Regina v Mahmood [2013] EWCA Crim 325; [2013] WLR (D) 116
“When calculating the expenditure incurred during a conspiracy, the statutory assumption in section 10(4) of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 did not mean that each conspirator was treated as having incurred all of the expenditure and evidence was required about the particular conspirator who had incurred it.”
WLR Daily, 22nd March 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Hayes v Willoughby [2013] UKSC 17; [2013] WLR (D) 110
Where a person whose conduct would amount to harrassment of another within section 1(1) of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 sought to rely on the defence under section 1(3)(a) of the Act of having acted for the purpose of preventing or detecting crime, he had to show that he had thought rationally about the material suggesting the possibility of criminality and had formed the view that the conduct said to constitute harassment was appropriate for the purpose of preventing or detecting it.
WLR Daily, 20th March 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Hayes (FC) (Respondent) v Willoughby (Appellant) [2013] UKSC 17 | UKSC 2012/0010 (YouTube)
Supreme Court, 20th March 2013
“Harassment is both a civil wrong and a crime. It is a statutory defence to both that the conduct #was pursued for the purpose of preventing or detecting crime’ s.1(3) Protection of Harassment Act 1997. This decision grappled with the problem of the apparently honest but irrational harasser. Was he guilty or did this defence help him? In answering this, the Supreme Court looked at some basic concepts running through great swathes of the law, ‘purpose’, ‘subjective’, ‘objective’, ‘reasonableness’ and, critically, ‘rationality’ – so the case is one not simply for harassment lawyers to look at.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 20th March 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Victims of disability hate crime are being let down by the criminal justice system and attacks are not being properly recorded, according to a report by three official inspectorates.”
The Guardian, 21st March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Children in care in England and Wales are being needlessly criminalised for ‘trivial incidents’, MPs have warned.”
BBC News, 14th March 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Serial criminals could commit even more crimes, MPs have warned, because cuts to prison services risk rehabilitation programmes being scaled back.”
Daily Telegraph, 5th March 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Regina v Asmelash [2013] EWCA Crim 157; [2013] WLR (D) 79
“There was nothing in the new statutory provisions relating to the partial defence to murder of loss of self control to suggest that Parliament intended that the normal rules which applied to voluntary intoxication should not apply. That did not mean that a defendant who had been drinking was deprived of the loss of control defence, it just meant that the defence had to be approached without reference to the defendant’s voluntary intoxication.”
WLR Daily, 22nd February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina v Dizaei [2013] EWCA Crim 88; [2013] WLR (D) 64
“When a court was assessing the probative value of the evidence of bad character of a witness in criminal proceedings, in accordance with the provisions of section 100 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003, among the factors relevant to the admissibility judgment, the court should consider whether the admission of such evidence might make it difficult for the jury to understand the remainder of the evidence, and whether its understanding of the case as a whole might be diminished. If the conclusion was that the evidence was not of substantial probative value in establishing propensity or lack of creditworthiness of the witness, or that the evidence was not of substantial importance in the context of the case as a whole, or both, the preconditions to admissibility would not established.”
WLR Daily, 14th February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Shereener Browne analyses the recent decision in T, R (on the application of) v Chief Constable of Greater Manchester & Ors and its impact on employment law.”
Garden Court Chambers Blog, 18th February 2013
Source: www.gclaw.wordpress.com
Regina v Love and another [2013] WLR (D) 56
“After a guilty plea had been entered an indictment could be amended otherwise than on an application by the defendant.”
WLR Daily, 13th February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The terrorism watchdog yesterday criticised the ‘bewildering’ range of anti-terror powers in the UK and said he wished the ‘evocative’ phrase had never entered the law.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th February 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“2.1m violent incidents were recorded in 2011/12 by the Crime Survey for England and Wales. See what the latest figures say.”
The Guardian, 7th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Andrzej Bojarski, Kate Tompkins and Cameron Crowe, barristers at 36 Bedford Row, combine their expertise in unravelling complex financial arrangements on divorce and prosecuting serious crimes to consider whether the criminal courts might offer opportunities for a spouse in an exceptional case when all conventional options in the family courts have been exhausted.”
Family Law Week, 6th February 2013
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
“Failure to opt back in to EU criminal justice measures will hamper the UK’s ability to prosecute cross-border crime, making procedures ‘uncertain, cumbersome and fragmented’, the director of public prosecutions told peers today.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 6th February 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
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