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6KBW | United Kingdom | 17 Feb 2021
The conjoined appeals in R v Byrne and ors. [2021] EWCA Crim 107 related to the safety of convictions arising from separate trials in which the Crown…
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6KBW | United Kingdom | 11 Feb 2021
Criminal lawyers watching Steve McQueen’s Mangrove on the BBC last year may have raised an eyebrow or two during the scenes at the Old Bailey…
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6KBW | Australia | 6 Jul 2020
Our previous post reviewed the use of remote courts in domestic criminal proceedings and considered how the sharp increase in the courts’ use of…
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6KBW | United Kingdom | 30 Jun 2020
The Secretary of State for Justice recently confirmed that the government is considering whether to introduce primary legislation to suspend jury…
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6KBW | United Kingdom | 23 Jun 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has led to a significant change in how courts conduct their business, both here and abroad. This post considers the position…
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6KBW | United Kingdom | 1 Jun 2020
In Elgizouli v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] UKSC 10, a seven-Justice Supreme Court held that the provision of material by way of…
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6KBW | United Kingdom | 28 May 2020
What is left of guilt if science can explain a defendant's actions? We may be a long way yet from understanding all human behaviour, but recent…
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6KBW | United Kingdom | 25 May 2020
For years, prosecutors and defenders have acted in the confident knowledge that obtaining certain types of important electronic evidence…
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6KBW | United Kingdom | 18 May 2020
On 28 February 2020, an Old Bailey jury acquitted Roger Jenkins, Tom Kalaris and Richard Boath of offences of conspiracy to commit fraud during a…
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6KBW | United Kingdom | 27 Apr 2020
In a series of Blog posts, members of 6KBW have identified a number of ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has led to change in the administration of…