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
May 20, 2019 DW Blog No comments yet Tough New Weapons Laws Hit the Statute Book On 16th May 2019 the controversial Offensive Weapons bill received Royal Assent, bringing into law the Offensive Weapons Act 2019. […] Read more