“The case was concerned with the balance between, on the one hand, the public interest in open justice and, on the other hand, the countervailing interest in maintaining confidentiality in certain types of sensitive material (in this instance materials obtained in the course of an air accident investigation) ...”

ADDED Wednesday 9th December 2020

“The appeal was concerned with the so-called ‘householder defence’, where the occupier of a dwelling or of forces accommodation seeks to avail himself of the statutory provisions which, in effect, allow householders greater latitude regarding the degree of force that can be used in self-defence ...”

ADDED Tuesday 8th December 2020

“The case was concerned with live streaming by a man known as Tommy Robinson, the co-founder and former leader of the English Defence League, from outside the trial of a sex grooming ring. The court had to consider the law of contempt in relation to the reporting of proceedings, the harassment of persons attending court and photography within the precincts of the court building ...

ADDED Monday 7th December 2020

“The case involved a prosecution by the Serious Fraud Office of a company for conspiring to bribe foreign public officials and it raised the question whether the trial of a corporate defendant was fair where the individuals who were its 'Directing Minds and Will’ (DMWs) were neither charged nor otherwise present at the trial ...”

ADDED Friday 4^th December 2020

“The Divisional Court handed down judgment in an application for judicial review brought by Boris Johnson against the Westminster Magistrates’ Court. The subject matter of the proceedings dated back to the European Union referendum campaign in 2016 …”

ADDED Wednesday 2nd December 2020

“The case was concerned with whether either the European Convention on Human Rights or the doctrine of legitimate expectation required HM Government to investigate State collusion in Loyalist murders during ‘The Troubles’ in Northern Ireland ...”

ADDED Tuesday 1st December 2020

“The judgment provides a helpful illustration of both the principles to be applied and the practical arrangements to be made by the Court of Appeal where a convicted defendant claims to have been a victim of human trafficking and seeks, in effect, a retrospective review of the decision to prosecute ...”

“The case was concerned with people smuggling across the English Channel and prompted the court to consider the difference between the mental element required to prove the substantive offence of assisting illegal immigration by non-EU nationals and a conspiracy to commit that offence ...”