“The case was concerned with developments in our understanding of coercive control in abusive relationships and, when combined with a diagnosis of mental disorder, the potential impact on the partial defences of provocation and diminished responsibility ...”

“The case arose from the trial of a man who had been involved in the production of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in Afghanistan in 2012, for use against the Coalition forces there, and who had been apprehended when he was on the point of committing a major terrorist atrocity close to Downing Street in 2017. It prompted the court to consider the validity of so-called ‘notification’ hearings, where the prosecution see the judge in the absence of the defence, not for the purpose of asserting public interest immunity but in order to prevent inadvertent mis-management of the case ...”

“The case was concerned, generally, with what conduct is capable of amounting to harassment and, more specifically, with whether unsolicited emails can be harassment and whether putting private information into the public domain on social media forfeits any protection from harassment by use of that information; and also addressed the situation where a course of conduct is deliberately designed to prejudice the proper administration of justice by a judge or the performance of his or her duties by a public official ...”

“The case was concerned with the operation of the foreign criminal provisions under the deportation regime and focused, in particular, on how the so-called ‘public interest question’ (namely whether an interference with the deportee’s right to respect for private life and family life is justified under Article 8(2) of the ECHR) is to be approached when the individual in question, though not a British citizen, was born here or has lived here for most or all of his life and has never visited the country to which he is to be deported …”

“The case was concerned with the lawfulness of one element of the Metropolitan Police’s response to the Extinction Rebellion protests in Central London in October 2019 ...”

“The case was concerned with the definition of ‘torture’ under section 134 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 and the distinctions to be drawn, firstly, between governmental activity and military activity and, secondly, between the actual exercise of governmental functions as distinct from the purported exercise of such functions. It also prompted consideration by the Supreme Court of the principles of interpretation of international treaties ...”

“The case was concerned with a series of notices served by the authorities in Jersey on a trust company there, relating to investigations being conducted both in Norway and, latterly, in Jersey into the tax affairs of a Norwegian national through a complex web of companies and trusts based in various offshore tax havens. It prompted the Privy Council to consider the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights on the scope and effect of the privilege against self-incrimination as it applies under Article 6 of the Convention …”

“The case concerned the correct approach to be taken by a trial judge to bad character evidence from a police officer with expertise regarding the membership of gangs with pro-firearm and anti-police tendencies, including through the interpretation of music lyrics ...”

“The case arose from a corporate takeover by the America computer giant, Hewlett Packard, and concerned the circumstances in which the English court will permit a litigant to use documents obtained in civil proceedings for the purpose of parallel criminal proceedings, specifically in this case by disclosing them to the FBI pursuant to a Grand Jury subpoena ...”

“The case concerned an extradition appeal in which there were allegations of human rights abuses in Turkish prisons and illustrated the approach taken to assurances from a requesting state and the admission of fresh evidence on appeal …”