Investigative journalist and crime author, Graham Johnson, has had his application for permission to appeal against sentence heard in the...

Welcome to the January 2022 edition of the DSC Criminal Appeals Bulletin. 

The Bulletin is aimed at assisting those involved in appellate...

Private criminal prosecutions, those brought in the criminal courts by corporate entities or individuals, have increased in recent years...

The Court of Appeal continues to grapple with the difficult and nuanced questions that arise in the sentencing of people with mental...

Many remand prisoners will have a considerable amount of time to ponder the evidence against them and conclude that some aspect of the...

James Wood QC discusses recent sentence appeals on minimum terms in discretionary life sentences. He 

James Wood QC reviews two recent Hong Kong judgments in which the Hong Kong High Court interpreted the Law of the Peoples Republic of...

1. Fichardo [2020] EWCA Crim 667 is the latest in a long line of authorities addressing the criteria for leave to cross-examine a witness...

Recent weeks have seen a concerning trend of police overreach and casual criminalisation, often of young or other potentially vulnerable...

Last week, the National Crime Agency deployed account freezing orders to secure £190 million held in the UK.  Malik Riaz, a property...

In this article James Wood QC considers some of the policy reasons which apparently lie behind an increasing willingness  in the...

Crime and punishment are common fodder for British newspapers. Offences of violence, sex, and dishonesty are the usual (and depressing)...