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In two landmark cases regarding the scope of a defendant’s duty of care, two similarly constituted extended seven-justice Supreme Court panels today handed down judgments in cases which concerned, firstly, the duty in the context of a claim for clinical…

P’s mother, with the father’s support, applied to the Court for authorisation for P to be circumcised in accordance with the Muslim faith and wished the procedure to be undertaken forthwith and, in any event, before P’s second birthday. The…

Adopting what he described as a common-sense approach to the evaluation of the evidence as a whole, Linden J applied the burden of proof and took into account that there had been no ‘live’ evidence or cross-examination in the judicial…

When the deadline is midnight, is there a complete  undivided day following the expiry of the deadline which should be included when calculating the limitation period? That is the question the Supreme Court decided in a judgment delivered today: Matthew…

More than ten years ago around two hundred dusty files relating to complaints from members of the public and other service users about certain healthcare professionals were discovered in a locked cupboard at one of the regulator’s offices. Nothing had…

What is it that makes the verdict of a jury so special? If a District Judge sitting in a Magistrates’ Court, properly directing himself or herself that there is in law no defence to a charge, but nonetheless decides it…

Following the decision of a Crown Court Recorder to accede to a defence submission of no case to answer on a charge of attempted child abduction, the matter came before the Court of Appeal : Application by Prosecution for Leave…

Although in most cases it is obvious if a building is a dwelling, it fell to the Court of Appeal to determine whether, in the instant case, the burglary of a hotel room was the burglary of a dwelling:  Bruce…

When is it necessary for a court to give a direction on the relevance of self-induced intoxication? The Court of Appeal was concerned that the present state of authorities was likely to create uncertainty, and practitioners may care to read…

  The Court of Appeal emphasised today that it remained critical that legal directions ensured that juries would approach the evidence of bad character correctly: Fanta & Anor v The Queen [2021] EWCA Crim 564:  Fulford LJ (Vice-President CD), Jeremy…