Historic buggery offences should be sentenced by measured reference to modern rape guidelines where the conduct is equivalent to anal rape (and not to section 9 child-sexual-activity guidance) Case:...
“Decoy Victim” Sentencing: Only a Small Reduction Where the Offence Would Otherwise Have Been Completed Case: R v Palfrey Neutral citation: [2026] EWCA Crim 487 Court: England and Wales Court of...
FSMA s.39: Client Category Limits Define “Part of the Business”, Restricting Principal Liability for Appointed Representatives 1. Introduction Kession Capital Ltd (in Liquidation) v KVB Consultants...
Judicial Review as a Remedy of Last Resort: Default Duty to Exhaust Adequate Statutory Remedies (Including Social Welfare s. 318 Revision) Case: L.A. v The Chief Appeals Officer & Ors (Approved)...
Pending Variation Is Not a “Reasonable Excuse” to Breach a Restraining Order: Limits on Vacating an Unequivocal Guilty Plea 1. Introduction In Hughes, R. v [2026] EWCA Crim 491, the Court of Appeal...
Exceptional Circumstances Disapplying the Seven-Year Minimum for Repeat Class A Supply Where the Minimum Would Be Arbitrary and Disproportionate Case: Evans, R. v Neutral citation: [2026] EWCA Crim...
Rebutting Section 72 “Danger to the Community” After a Grave Index Offence: Risk Must Be So Low It Can Be Discounted, and Devaseelan Requires a Real Starting-Point Analysis Case: KD v Secretary of...
Fraudulently Obtained Secure Tenancy and Intentional Homelessness: Chishimba Confined; Denton Applied 1. Introduction Munemo v City of Wolverhampton Council [2026] EWCA Civ 329 is a second appeal...
Birth Registration Does Not Create Parental Responsibility: Only the Genetic Father Can Acquire PR under Children Act 1989 s 4 1. Introduction J, Re (Loss of Parental Responsibility) [2026] EWCA Civ...
FSMA s.26 Recovery Is Personal Against the Contracting Counterparty and Does Not Bind Successors in Title 1. Introduction Dhillon v Orchard & Anor concerns the civil consequences of an unauthorised...
Maguire, R. v [2026] NICA 12 — Guilty Plea Discount Must Be Applied After the Section 15 Domestic Abuse Aggravator Uplift 1. Introduction The King v Barry Maguire concerned an appeal against sentence...
R v Percival: Reformulated Charges and “First Real Opportunity” Guilty Plea Credit; Dangerousness Requires an Extended Determinate Sentence in Prolonged Grooming and Repeat Sexual Offending 1....
Fraudulent Trading (Companies Act 2006, s 993): “Fraudulent purpose” turns on dishonesty, not a requirement to plead/prove discrete acts of “misconduct” Case: R v Beckett [2026] EWCA Crim 462 (CA...
Res Judicata from Unappealed WRC Equal Status Decisions and a Limited Path to Plead Constitutional Challenges to Covid Travel Regulations Introduction Pysz v Department of Health (Approved) [2026]...
Clarificatory-Value Exception to “Costs Follow the Event” on Supreme Court Appeals Between Private Parties 1. Introduction This ruling concerns costs only, following the Supreme Court’s earlier...
Distinct Strands of CCTV Identification: Jury Comparison vs Familiar-Witness Recognition Must Not Be Conflated 1) Introduction In R v Lewin [2026] EWCA Crim 450, the Court of Appeal (Criminal...
“Across-the-board” Decision-Making Representative Appointments on Wardship Discharge Where Functional Assessment Finds No Decision-Making Capacity Even With Co-Decision-Making Support 1) Introduction...
Mandatory Discharge from Wardship and Appointment of a Decision-Making Representative Under s.55 of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 1. Introduction This ex tempore ruling of the High...
Discharge from Wardship with Full-Scope Decision-Making Representative Appointment Where Capacity Is Absent Even with Support 1. Introduction This ex tempore ruling of the High Court (Mr Justice Mark...
Section 26 (Civil Liability and Courts Act 2004): No Dismissal Where Third-Party Damage Inflation Is Not the Plaintiff’s Dishonest Evidence 1) Introduction Morrissey v Starrus Eco Holdings Ltd and...