November 25, 2019 DW Blog No comments yet Innocent and Angry – A Measured Response Required It is a common occurrence to come across suspects and defendants who fee extreme anger at being caught up in […] Read more
November 20, 2019 DW Blog No comments yet Playing Politics with Crime? We are in the midst of a general election, so it is perhaps not surprising that ‘law and order’ are […] Read more
November 18, 2019 DW Blog No comments yet The Pizza Alibi On 10th March 2001, HRH Prince Andrew is alleged to have met and been photographed with a lady who has […] Read more
November 13, 2019 DW Blog No comments yet Lies and Easy Money In a case this week involving Jet2 Holidays, Karl and Laura Hughes claimed that they had suffered sickness while on […] Read more
November 11, 2019 DW Blog No comments yet Tracking violent offenders A pilot is being carried out into electronic monitoring global positioning system. The aim of the pilot is to gain […] Read more
June 19, 2019 DW Blog No comments yet Women in Prison Prison is supposed to be hard. It is, after all, a punishment. But it’s also designed to help people address […] Read more
June 12, 2019 DW Blog No comments yet Sally Challen – An Issue of Coercive Control In February 2019 the Court of Appeal quashed Sally Challen’s conviction for the murder of her husband and ordered […] Read more
May 29, 2019 DW Blog No comments yet Release on Temporary Licence The government has conducted a review of the process for prisoners to be released on temporary licence (ROTL); the drive […] Read more
May 28, 2019 DW Blog No comments yet Sentencing – Breaking the Code Few people would disagree with the suggestion that sentencing law in England and Wales is a complete mess. The provisions […] Read more
May 23, 2019 DW Blog No comments yet On the Balance of Probabilities – But What Does That Mean? In criminal law, we use two different standards of proof, the most well known is ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ (although these […] Read more