December 23, 2020
The videos released since Monday 16 November 2020, in the order in which they were uploaded, include:
- R v Black (Ludovic) [2020] EWCA Crim 915 on adverse inferences relating to police interviews and defence statements
- R v Hepburn (Alex) [2020] EWCA Crim 820 on the bad character provisions, evidence to do with the facts of the offence & important explanatory evidence etc
- R(McCourt) v Parole Board [2020] EWCA 2320 (Admin) on standing to bring a judicial review claim and aspects of Parole Board procedure
- Home Secretary v Suffolk County Council [2020] 3 WLR 742 on Female Genital Mutilation and the intersection between family and immigration/asylum proceedings
- R v Wangige (Joseph Karumba) [2020] EWCA Crim 1319 on prosecutions based on substantially the same facts as a prior conviction
- R v Smith (Alec) [2020] 4 WLR 128 on multiple hearsay and the service of notice under the Criminal Procedure Rules
- Mirchandani v Lord Chancellor [2020] EWCA Civ 1260 on a private prosecutor’s costs in confiscation enforcement proceedings
- Re McGuinness (AG of Northern Ireland intervening) [2020] 3 All ER 827 on what constitutes a ‘criminal cause or matter’ in a Judicial Review appeal
- R v Luckett (Michael David) [2020] EWCA Crim 565 on sentencing police officers for misconduct in public office
- R (RD) v Justice Secretary [2020] EWCA Civ 1346 on rehabilitation and applications to join the police service
- Ashbolt v HMRC [2020] STC 1813 on counsel assisting the court with regard to ex parte applications for search warrants
- Re Finucane’s Application for Judicial Review [2019] 3 All ER 191 on legitimate expectation, the ECHR and the duty to investigate state collusion in murder
- R (Johnson) v Westminster Magistrates’ Court [2020] 2 All ER 271 on judicial review of a private prosecution for misconduct in public office
- R v Fulton (Gary) [2019] Lloyds Rep FC 263 on the determination of benefit in confiscation proeedings relating to major revenue fraud
- R v Alstom Network UK Ltd [2019] Lloyds Rep FC 46 on the trial of a corporate defendant based on the attribution principle where its ‘Directing Minds and Will’ are not charged
- AG v Yaxley-Lennon (Stephen) [2020] 3 All ER 477 on aspects of the substantive law of contempt of court
- R v Cheeseman (Steven) [2019] 1 Cr App R 34 on the statutory provisions allowing householders greater latitude in self-defence
- BBC v Transport Secretary [2019] 4 WLR 23 on balancing open justice and confidentiality in certain categories of sensitive material
- BBC v Transport Secretary (Costs) [2019] 4 WLR 24 on the award of costs where interested parties assist the court regarding the public interest
- R v Kuddus [2019] 2 Cr App R 16 on gross negligence manslaughter and the serious and obvious risk of death
- CPS v Aquila Advisory Ltd [2019] Lloyds Rep FC 358 on priority as between a confiscation order and a company’s proprietary claim founded on breach of fiduciary duty
- R v LT [2019] 1 Cr App R 30 on identification through social media
- R v Shepherd (Jack) [2019] 2 Cr App R 26 on the point when the obligation to caution arises and the specialty rule in the context of Bail Act proceedings
- R v Melin (Ozan) [2019] QB 1063 on deception as to a person’s status as a doctor vitiating consent to a medical procedure
- R v Woodward (Connor) [2019] 2 Cr App R 28 on lengthy separations of a jury in retirement
- R (Bahbahani) v Ealing Magistrates’ Court [2019] 3 WLR 901 on the jurisdictional consequences of non-compliance with the plea and mode of trial procedure
- R v Bush & Scouler [2019] Lloyds Rep FC 210 on the approach to submissions of no case to answer in Serious and Complex Frauds.
- R v C (B) [2019] 2 Cr App R 11 on the hearsay provisions and also on the inadvertent admission of inadmissible and prejudicial material
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