Morrisons employee Andrew Skelton held a grudge against his employer and decided to illegally release payroll information onto the web. He was jailed but the victims of his crime brought a case against the supermarket chain in a bid to try and claim compensation. In
When it transpired that a ship had been sunk on purpose the insurers went after the bank that had refinanced the vessel in a bid to get their money back. One of the questions asked was whether the English courts had jurisdiction over this case
El Shafee Elsheikh was involved with ISIS and is alleged to have been involved in the beheadings of 27 citizens from the UK and the US. The UK provided legal assistance to the Americans but broke with convention by not requiring assurances that the evidence
MS had been abused by relatives and made to work for free but the authorities decided that he had not been the victim of trafficking and planned to deport him. In this case the Supreme Court had to decide whether the Immigration Tribunal was permitted
We are somewhat lucky that in the legal blogosphere debates tend to remain calm and rational. Unlike politics or sports which are more subjective than people would like to admit, everyone is starting with the same source material (the law) and developing their analysis from
When Copeland was arrested for possessing small amounts of an explosive substance he wasn’t a political extremist or a terrorist but just a young man who has a keen interest in bombs. In this case the Supreme Court decides whether that is enough of a
DN was detained under immigration law for committing serious offences that could have led to his eventual deportation back to Rwanda. However when the basis for his detention was held to be unlawful everything was thrown up in the air and it was up to
This pandemic that is sweeping the world is evolving in real time and that makes it difficult to take a step back and assess how things are going. Some countries are undoubtedly doing better than others but that often varies according to political and economic
In this bonus episode we break down the recently passed Coronavirus Act 2020 and analyse some of the key provisions.
Michael Stone is a loyalist terrorist who is currently behind bars for a range of politically-motivated crimes. The thirty year tariff on his sentence was due to expire in 2018 but this ignored the fact that he had been released for a period of time