Suspending Custody for Image Offences: PSR-Based Rehabilitation Evidence Must Be Properly Weighed Under the 2025 Imposition Guideline 1) Introduction R v Goutam ([2026] EWCA Crim 332) concerns the...
GW v R [2026] NICA 6 — Sentencing Must Reflect a Narrow Interpretation of Specimen-Count Verdicts (and Credit Unexplained Delay) 1) Introduction GW v R is a Northern Ireland Court of Appeal...
Common Good Disposals: Court Approval of Community Benefit Leases with Conditions Ensuring Public Access and No Change of Use 1. Introduction West Lothian Council petitioned the Outer House of the...
Autonomy First on Wardship Discharge: “Benefit” Is Not “Necessity” for Co-Decision-Making under the 2015 Act 1. Introduction This ex tempore ruling in In the Matter of P, a Ward of Court, and in the...
Material Non-Disclosure of Custody Medical Evidence Undermining Confessions Renders Legacy Convictions Unsafe Case: The King v Patrick Lawrence O'Neill Neutral Citation: [2026] NICA 14 (Court of...
Inherent Jurisdiction to Restrain Abusive Litigation Communications Interfering with Proceedings (No Cause of Action Required), Subject to Article 10, Litigation Immunity and Tailoring 1)...
Unchallenged Expert Evidence and Appellate Restraint in Article 2/3 Deportation Appeals 1. Introduction Safi v Secretary of State for the Home Department concerned a Secretary of State appeal against...
Guidance Note on Vulnerable Appellants Is Not a Free-Standing Set of Legal Obligations; Error Turns on Material Procedural Unfairness Case: Khan v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2026]...
Gluck v Endzweig & Anor: Unlimited “Amend at Any Time” Clauses Are Repugnant to Arbitral Finality Under the Arbitration Act 1996 1. Introduction Gluck v Endzweig & Anor ([2026] EWCA Civ 145) is a...
Judicial Review of Regulatory Guidance: “Misdirection in Law” Requires Inducement of Unlawful Conduct (R(A) Applied to Terminology in GMP) 1. Introduction This Court of Appeal decision concerns a...
Fresh CPTSD Evidence and Loss of Control: When New Psychiatric Labels Cannot Recast a Trial Strategy on Appeal Case: O'Shaughnessy, R. v Citation: [2026] EWCA Crim 141 Court: England and Wales Court...
Section 5 “Significant Risk” Need Not Be Pre-existing: Coterminous Risk from the Unlawful Act Suffices Case: Jamal, R. v (Rev1) Citation: [2026] EWCA Crim 135 Court: EWCA (Criminal Division) Date: 19...
Reeves: Mandatory Doli Incapax Directions for Pre‑30 September 1998 Under‑14 Offending, and No “Spillover” to 14+ Counts 1. Introduction R. v Reeves ([2026] EWCA Crim 321, 20 February 2026) is a...
Section 45 EAW Act: “Final and Absolute” Convictions Do Not Bar Surrender Where an Unconditional Post‑Surrender Retrial Right Exists and Absence Was Deliberate 1) Introduction Minister For Justice v...
Mootness in Disciplinary Appeal Panel Litigation: Proceedings Struck Out Where Resignations and Undertakings Deliver the Core Relief 1) Introduction In Burke v O'Longain and Ors [2026] IEHC 126, the...
R v Latham [2026] EWCA Crim 269 — Totality in Multi‑Victim Child Sexual Offending: Generous Youth/Personal Mitigation and Maximum Extension Can Still Defeat an Unduly Lenient Reference 1....
Aziz v R: Refusing Adjournment for Further Encrochat Expert Work and Managing Prosecution Closing Submissions Where an Accused Is Unrepresented 1. Introduction Aziz v R ([2026] EWCA Crim 127, 20...
Section 60(3)(a)(iv) DPA 2018 upheld as an Article 23 GDPR-compliant litigation restriction, and confidentiality recognised under Article 15(4) Case: O'Brien v The Data Protection Commission and Ors...
Totality in Historical Sexual Offending Spanning Youth to Adulthood: Upholding an “Offender of Particular Concern” Sentence and Correcting Youth Sentencing Maximums 1. Introduction WFU, R. v [2026]...
Waiver of Privilege and the “Significant Injustice” Threshold for Massively Out-of-Time Criminal Appeals 1) Introduction R. v Kakaie ([2026] EWCA Crim 258) concerns a renewed application to the...