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A brand new daily updating service, bringing you regular video case reviews, with real-time updates on all the latest cases and legislation.

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The case concerned an application for anonymity in forfeiture proceedings by a person who was neither party to nor a witness in those proceedings. The court also set out the requirements regarding notice, evidence in support, content of the order etc

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Did either the passage of time since the making of a Serious Crime Prevention Order or the stated intention of the person subject to the order to move permanently abroad amount to a change of circumstance allowing the High Court to discharge the order?
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Where the combined effect of a director’s disqualification order and a pre-existing disqualification undertaking exceeded the 15-year statutory maximum period under the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986, was that ultra virus the statute?

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Can a money laundering or a civil recovery investigation be commenced where no specific 'criminal property' or 'recoverable property' has yet been identified? Does property cease to be ‘criminal property’ once it is acquired for adequate consideration?

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Did the Crown Court have jurisdiction to try an offence of offering to supply a #controlleddrug, where the offer was made abroad but the supply of the drug was to occur in the #UK. How did the 'substantial measure of activities' test apply?

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The case concerned the forum bar in extradition proceedings arising from charges relating to the alleged laundering and theft of the proceeds of a $4 billion #Ponzi scheme. The scheme had been marketed worldwide as a #cryptocurrency called '#OneCoin'.

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Did the offence of 'unlawful eviction' under the Protection from Eviction Act 1977 need the tenant put or kept out of occupation? Did 'unlawful harassment' require a course of conduct & acts, not just omissions?

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The case concerned the payment of a private prosecutor’s from central funds, the jurisdiction of the Crown Court to amend such an order other than under the slip rule, and the costs of JR proceedings where the claimant was guilty of culpable failings.

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The case concerned appeals against sentence by two 'Just Stop Oil' protestors, who had caused large-scale disruption when they climbed the Queen Elizabeth II bridge at the Dartford/Thurrock Thames crossing & refused to budge for the next 36 hours.

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This involved a high-profile miscarriage of justice, arising from unreliable identification evidence. Andrew Malkinson spent 17 years in prison protesting his innocence and was finally cleared as a result of developments in the science of DNA analysis.

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The case concerned the approach to be taken to the imposition of custodial sentences during times of prison overcrowding. That factor could be taken into account by a sentencing judge when deciding whether a sentence of imprisonment should be suspended.

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The case arose from a fatal shooting by a police firearms specialist in the honest but mistaken belief that the suspect was armed. Was the test for self-defence in police disciplinary proceedings to be that applied in the civil law or the criminal law?

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The case concerned HMRC's powers to retain hard copies of docs & digital images made in the course of a criminal investigation once that investigation is over & then to share such material with their colleagues conducting civil tax inquiries.

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David Walbank KC has released three video reviews about business crime cases, including on Newcastle United Football Co Ltd v HMRC [2024] STC 73.

The judgment of the King’s Bench Divisional Court (Singh LJ & Garnham J) concerns the powers of HMRC (1) to retain paper copies and digital images subsequently taken of original documents that were seized during the execution of a search warrant and removed to HMRC premises under the powers contained in the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 (2) to share those copies and images with their colleagues conducting a civil tax investigation.

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David Walbank KC specialises in the defence of allegations of business crime and white-collar fraud. Read more: https://t.co/Gz2ZAeIlvM

Alongside his day-to-day practice in court, he is the founder and presenter of the criminal law video updating website: https://t.co/y6fKLBjbIL.
& also writes the fortnightly ‘Crime Brief’ column for the premier legal periodical, the @NewLawJournal

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The case arose from a confrontation between a COVID sceptic and healthcare professionals. It concerned the boundary between freedom of expression and the offence of causing harassment, alarm or distress through threatening or abusive words or behaviour.

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The case concerned the civic duty to perform jury service, the ‘fair-minded observer’ test in Porter v McGill [2002] AC 357 and the capacity of prospective jurors to shed their preconceived notions and to take and abide by their oaths and affirmations.

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The case concerned the standard of proof to be applied on applications for so-called 'gang injunctions', which aim to break down the gang culture, prevent gang-related violence from escalating and protect children from being drawn into serious crime.

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Is s.1(1)(d) of the Abortion Act 1967, which permits a pregnancy to be terminated up until full term where there is a substantial risk that if the child were born it would be 'seriously handicapped', compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights? https://t.co/kCFINuz0Dc

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The #case arose from a #protest against the #HS2 project for a high-speed rail line between London and the North of England and concerned the scope of the concept of ‘lawful activity' on land for the purpose of the statutory offence of aggravated trespass. https://t.co/X56Yiw3I6M

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The cancellation of a planned vigil in memory of Sarah Everard highlighted how the restrictions on outdoor gatherings at the height of the Covid 19 pandemic had to be subject to the ECHR rights to freedom of expression and freedom of peaceful assembly. https://t.co/nC138iMJIK

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Where a #defendant was convicted under s.63(1) of the #Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 of possession of an extreme pornographic image depicting bestiality, could the protections afforded by a Sexual Harm Prevention Order be extended to animals? https://t.co/n6u1Z9frC1