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Sentences in PC Harper case upheld by Court of Appeal
The Attorney General, Suella Braverman MP, appeared for the Crown in this appeal R v Long, Bowers and Cole [2020] EWCA Crim 1729 (16 December 2020) — judgment here The Court of Appeal held yesterday...
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Trafficking victim conclusive grounds decision admissible evidence at trial
Image: Unsplash DPP v M [2020] EWHC 3422 (Admin) (15 December 2020) — judgment here On 15 December 2020, the High Court ruled that a positive conclusive grounds decisions by the Single Competent...
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When is a policy not a policy: Supreme Court on Heathrow expansion
21 December 2020 by David Hart QC R (o.t.a Friends of the Earth et al) v. Heathrow Airport Ltd [2020] UKSC 52 – read judgment In February 2020, the Court of Appeal decided that the Government policy...
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Freeman on the Land: Canadian lawyer responds
What’s a judge to do when the Magna Carta/Freeman on the Land crew threaten you with hanging and start menacing court clerks as well? As Rosalind English noted in a previous post, Canada’s latest...
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Do Environmental Impact Assessments apply to products derived from a...
R (Finch) v. Surrey County Council et al [2020] EWHC 3559 (QB) – read judgment Environmental Impact Assessment or EIA is the process by which a developer and a planning authority look at whether a...
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10 cases that defined 2020
The Christmas decorations at Middle Temple. Photo by the author. This time last year I wrote that 2019 had been “perhaps the most tumultuous period in British politics for decades”. Little did I know...
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The Weekly Round-Up: Brexit, Brexit, Brexit: done and dusted?
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission Four and a half years after Britain voted to leave the EU, and 12 months after Boris Johnson was elected Prime Minister with his ‘oven-ready’...
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The Weekly Round-Up: Lockdown Again (Again)
In the News: So: here we are again. Rampant spread, fuelled by a combination of a new variant that is around 50-70% more transmissible, plus a lifting of restrictions at the beginning of December,...
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Law Pod UK latest episode: Catherine Barnard on Brexit
On Wednesday 30 December, the UK parliament passed Boris Johnson’s trade and cooperation agreement with the European Union. Professor Catherine Barnard of Cambridge University is continuing her series...
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Article 3 psychiatric cases: history and latest developments (Part 1) — Ruby...
Courtroom of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg In this two-part article, Ruby Peacock, an aspiring barrister and currently a legal and policy intern at the Legal Resources Centre in...
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Article 3 psychiatric cases: history and latest developments (Part 2) — Ruby...
The exterior of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg In this two-part article, Ruby Peacock, an aspiring barrister and currently a legal and policy intern at the Legal Resources Centre in...
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The Weekly Round-up: domestic abuse, stop and search, computer hacking
In the news: Last week’s round-up looked at the measures and messaging of the UK’s latest lockdown. This week we ask what it means for vulnerable children and victims of domestic abuse. Are sufficient...
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ECtHR orders Turkey to immediately release pro-Kurdish opposition leader
Selahattin Demirtaş delivering a speech in 2016. Photograph: Ozan Köse/AFP/Getty Images. Source: The Guardian On 22 December 2020, the European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) published a Grand...
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Law Pod UK latest episode: the significant cases of 2020
Whilst many of us would prefer not to dwell on 2020, it was a year that produced many interesting decisions. In Episode 134, Michael Spencer and Jon Metzer talk to Emma-Louise Fenelon about the cases...
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The environmental implications of the Brexit deal
Most UK people’s 2020 Christmas eves were cheered by the news that we had some sort of Brexit deal – here, in all its majesty. Given the deadline for no deal, some deal, however thin, was a good deal...
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The Weekly Round-up: A British response to Uyghur forced labour
In the news For several years, China has been enacting a policy of repression and brainwashing against over a million Uyghur Muslims in its northwest Xinjiang province. Reports include instances of...
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Overseas Operations Bill: Getting Away With Murder – Dr Ronan Cormacain
Pardons versus failure to prosecute One of the many outrages perpetrated by Donald Trump in the waning of his Presidency was granting a pardon to four private military contractors for their role in...
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Assange cannot be extradited, but free speech arguments dismissed — an...
In The Government of the United States v Julian Assange (2021), the District Judge sitting at Westminster Magistrates’ Court discharged the American extradition request against the founder of...
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“Wrongful Life” Revisited
In Evie Toombes v. Dr. Philip Mitchell [2020] EWHC 3506 the High Court has given renewed consideration to claims for, so called, “wrongful life”. Can a disabled person ever claim damages on the basis...
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German District Court declares Corona Ordinance Unconstitutional
In a landmark judgement on January 11, a district court judge in Weimar declared the prohibition on social contact unlawful as contrary to the German Basic Law (Gründgesetz). Its order at the time had...
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