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07
AUG
2019

Mobile Phones and Driving – The Legal Position by Kieran Dunphy

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We all know that the use of mobile phones is banned whilst driving.   Or are they?     The answer, according to the High Court’s recent decision in Director of Public Prosecutions v Barreto [2019] EWHC 2044 (Admin), is that it depends what you’re doing with it. What did Mr Barreto do?   Ramsey...
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20
MAY
2019

Tough New Weapons Laws Hit the Statute Book

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On 16th May 2019 the controversial Offensive Weapons bill received Royal Assent, bringing into law the Offensive Weapons Act 2019.  Why was this law passed?  This legislation has been passed in order to assist in stemming the current problems in relation to knife crime and other serious...
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02
APR
2019

Appeals from Beyond the Grave

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The Court of Appeal has handed down judgment in the case of R v Max Clifford, the disgraced celebrity PR guru who was convicted in 2014 of a number of sexual offences and sentenced to 8 years imprisonment.  Clifford died in 2017, so why did the appeal proceed? Section 44A of The Criminal Appeal...
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27
MAR
2019

PARLIAMENTARY CRIME

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Parliamentary Crime  There have been two entirely different crime stories in the news this week, but both will challenge the court to consider sentencing guidelines and how they ought to be applied.  Conservative MP Christopher Davies admitted two charges concerning expenses fraud. The sum of...
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31
DEC
2018

Will the Court Know About My Previous Convictions?

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If you are being sentenced for an offence, the court will be aware of, and may take into account, any convictions you have. Whether this has any impact upon the sentence passed will very much depend on the date of those convictions and the relevance of any to the more recent offending.  If you...
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