Contingent Success Fees Invoiced After Leaving a VAT Group Are Taxable: Article 64 PVD and Regulation 90 Create the Chargeable Event, Not the “Real‑World” Performance Case: The Prudential Assurance...
Abuse of Trust Beyond Workplace Hierarchy: Sentencing Framework for Manager–Employee Sexual Assault in R v Mackenzie [2025] EWCA Crim 1526 1. Introduction This commentary considers the decision of...
R v Moss [2025] EWCA Crim 1252: Adjusting Drug Guideline Categories and Suspending Short Custodial Sentences for Rehabilitated Young Offenders 1. Introduction This commentary examines the decision of...
Howells [2025] EWCA Crim 1237: Disapplying the “third‑strike” minimum for Class A supply does not justify a non‑custodial sentence—guidelines still require custody and suspended terms should...
Alhayali: “Sufficiently Close” Is a Tribunal Fact‑Evaluation, Not a Pure Question of Law, in Embassy Employment Immunity; Doubts Cast on Aziz and on Using s.5 to Bypass s.4 Introduction In Royal...
Kurtaj v R [2025] EWCA Crim 1163: Authority and Funding for Appeals by the Unfit to Plead, and Fairness Limits on Using Prior Convictions as Propensity in s4A Trials Introduction This Court of Appeal...
Active Verification, Flexible Evidence, and Non‑Fettered Discretion in Irish Employment Visa Decisions: Commentary on Masood v Minister for Justice [2025] IEHC 485 Introduction This High Court...
Upward departures in money-laundering sentencing where underlying drugs harm is identifiable: Court of Appeal affirms Ogden-calibrated approach in R v Masih & Singh [2025] EWCA Crim 1236 Citation: R...
Unduly Lenient References: Appellate Deference to Charge Framing and the Suspendability of Category C “Production” Offences — R v Hargrave [2025] EWCA Crim 1233 Introduction This commentary analyses...
R v Smith [2025] EWCA Crim 1251 – Sentencing for Fraudulent Removal of Company Assets: Use of Fraud Guidelines, Risk-Based Harm, and the Limited Effect of Restitution and Personal Mitigation 1....
No Collateral Article 10 Defence to Breach of Court of Protection Injunctions: Immediate Custody for Repeated, Knowing Contempt — Macpherson v Sunderland City Council [2025] EWCA Civ 1159...
R v Mikolajczyk [2025] EWCA Crim 1232: A stringent “interests of justice” standard for 12‑year out‑of‑time appeals and the limits on re-trying jury verdicts Introduction In R v Mikolajczyk [2025]...
Out-of-time judicial review dismissals operate as res judicata: High Court strikes out collateral plenary challenge; “continuing breach” and Greendale fraud arguments rejected Introduction In Browne...
R v Dervan [2025] EWCA Crim 1525: Evidence‑Based Harm Categorisation in Breaches of Non‑Molestation Orders 1. Introduction The decision in Dervan, R. v [2025] EWCA Crim 1525 is a sentencing appeal...
R v Bergstrom [2025] EWCA Crim 1301: Voluntary Desistance Requires a Significant Step‑Two Downward Adjustment Under s.10 Guideline, Balanced by Aggravation and Totality Introduction This commentary...
Liberty to Apply Is for Working Out, Not Rewriting: Limits on Post‑Judgment Clarification and Retrospective Time Extension in Point Village Development Ltd v Dunnes Stores [2025] IEHC 480...
Automatic Statutory Substitution under Section 41 of the Central Bank Act 1971: No Court Order Required; Collateral Challenges Struck Out and Injunction Undertakings Discharged Introduction This...
Patel v R: Post‑Brexit closure of EU free‑movement defences to cannabis importation and the confinement of Margiotta to proven low‑THC cases Court: Court of Appeal (Criminal Division), England and...
Evans v R: OSGs Can Be Public Officers; Likely Consequences, Not Proven Harm, Define Seriousness in Misconduct in Public Office Introduction In Evans v R ([2025] EWCA Crim 1150), the Court of Appeal...
Potanina v Potanin (No. 2): Aligning the Part III Leave Threshold with a “Real Prospect of Success” and confirming (pre‑Brexit) Maintenance Regulation constraints on forum objections Introduction...