Sentencing for Animal Cruelty Causing Death: Uplifts Must Be Reasoned and Mitigation (Youth/Immaturity/Trauma) Must Be Properly Balanced 1. Introduction Thornby, R. v ([2025] EWCA Crim 1432) is a...
Sladden [2025] EWCA Crim 1410: High Threshold for Unduly Lenient Sentence References and Permissibility of Suspension in Category A1 Coercive Control Cases (Including Strangulation) Introduction This...
Suspending Custody for Vulnerable Female Class A Drug Offenders: No Presumption for Immediate Imprisonment and Proper Weight to Rehabilitation Evidence 1) Introduction R. v Beresford ([2025] EWCA...
The “Big Issue” Approach to Costs under the LSRA: Substantive Success Outweighs Narrow Relief — Electricity Supply Board v Good & ors [2025] IESC 40 Introduction This commentary examines the Supreme...
Misrepresentations as Continuing Acts, Broad s6(4) Suspension, and Court of Session Jurisdiction for Consumer Credit Act Unfairness in Group Proceedings Introduction In William Mackie (Representative...
Curtain Principle and Midcouple Requirement Reaffirmed: No “Solum Rights” Without a Pleaded Link in Title; Contractual Access May Be Vindicated Without Proving Ownership Introduction This Outer House...
Continuing misrepresentation defers prescription and s140B Consumer Credit Act remedies are justiciable in Court of Session group proceedings: Commentary on Batchelor v Opel [2025] CSOH 93...
FOISA section 12 costs are assessed by reference to how information is actually held: no public-interest override and no duty to upgrade systems Introduction This commentary examines the decision of...
Unknown and Unaccepted Repudiation Is “Writ in Water”: Practical Utility as a Gatekeeper for Declarators in Disciplinary Context Case: Adrian Russo v The Council of the Law Society of Scotland...
Re‑pleading on Appeal and the Primacy of Facts over Labels: Court of Appeal Endorses Case‑Management Directions Preceding a Strike‑Out Appeal Introduction In Yamba v BW Legal Services Ltd [2025] EWCA...
Security for Costs under CPR 2025: No Transitional Carve‑Out for Pre‑Brexit Claims; Litigant‑Specific Enforcement Risks Justify Residence‑Abroad Orders; Security Confined to Costs of Resisting the...
CPS‑Equivalent Cap on Private Prosecutors’ Recovery from Central Funds under s17(2A) POA 1985 where CPS was not engaged and the legal market not tested Introduction This reserved costs judgment of...
Mainpay Ltd v HMRC: No “Single Discontinuous Employment” under ITEPA and a Clarified Causation Test for “Loss of Tax Brought About Carelessly” Introduction This appeal concerned umbrella company...
Coordinating Bankruptcy and Plenary Proceedings: Appointment‑Validity Must Be Decided First and in the Correct Procedural Vehicle — No Parallel Litigation Across Lists (Dunne [2025] IEHC 531)...
"No removal while your own guidance promises a 30‑day NRM reconsideration": Secretary of State must preserve reconsideration opportunity offered under statutory guidance Case: CTK, R (On the...
No “in‑between” categories: Joint offending plus severe psychological harm mandates Category 1A for sexual assault; abuse-of-trust requires significant responsibility (Singh & Anor [2025] EWCA Crim...
Separate Money-Laundering Prosecution Not an Abuse Despite Earlier Fraud Proceedings; Absconding and Extreme Delay Weigh Against Extensions of Time 1. Introduction R v Malik ([2025] EWCA Crim 1420)...
R v Vanyai-White: Consecutive Sentences in a Single Incident Must Not Double Count or Circumvent Statutory Maximums 1. Introduction R v Vanyai-White concerned an appeal against sentence following...
Converted Third‑State Sentences under the Transfer Convention Are Treated as “Imposed” in the Issuing State for EAW Purposes; “Heavier Penalty” Objections Confined Post‑Alchester II — Commentary on...
R v Madhi & Anor [2025] EWCA Crim 1401: Disapplying the s315 Minimum and Avoiding Mixed Youth Custody Regimes Where s250 Detention Is Imposed Introduction This Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)...