May 20, 2020 DW Blog No comments yet Police Investigations – Are They Now Secret? It is quite common to read in a newspaper that someone has been arrested. Local papers will cover almost any […] Read more
May 13, 2020 DW Blog No comments yet Firearms – Court of Appeal Maintains Tough Sentencing Approach In a recent case, the Court of Appeal dealt with an appeal by the Attorney General against a sentence of […] Read more
May 7, 2020 DW Blog No comments yet Penalty Points – Avoiding Double Counting For some new drivers, six penalty points mean resitting a driving test, for other drivers twelve points may mean disqualification. […] Read more
May 1, 2020 DW Blog No comments yet The Far Right & Terrorism When people hear reference to the far-right many would think of racism rather than terrorism. Alice Cutter and Mark Jones […] Read more
April 29, 2020 DW Blog No comments yet Local Authority Prosecutions The local authority has the power to prosecute in respect of a number of types of crime. This could be […] Read more
April 24, 2020 DW Blog No comments yet Terminating Rulings When a judge makes a ruling at a crown court trial relating to one or more of the offences faced, […] Read more
April 21, 2020 DW Blog No comments yet Appeals There are several types of criminal appeals. Appeals against conviction or sentence Cases start in the Magistrates Court. If you […] Read more
April 15, 2020 DW Blog No comments yet Will Coronavirus Be a ‘Get out of Jail’ Card? Before a prosecution is commenced, the Crown Prosecution Service must apply two distinct tests. The first is whether there is […] Read more
April 14, 2020 DW Blog No comments yet Mitigation The dictionary definition of “to mitigate” is to lessen in force or intensity, to make less severe. Mitigation is the […] Read more
April 8, 2020 DW Blog No comments yet Death by dangerous driving and causation In some instances, more than one person can be responsible for causing death by dangerous driving. An unusual case arose […] Read more