Criminal Case Law 2024 - A Year in Review

Introduction

This webinar, presented by Colin Beaumont, will review 20 important decisions handed down by both the High Court and the Court of Appeal.

It is important that criminal practitioners keep themselves updated with case-law in order that the appropriate advice is given, and that the appropriate representations are made in Court - it being part of the duty of the advocate to assist the court wherever possible.

This webinar is a distillation of the ‘essence’ of the 20 judgments considered.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover a selection of recent cases, including:

• R v Chigona [2024] (causing serious injury by careless driving)
• R v Khan [2024] (qualifying curfews)
• R v Woodlife [2024] (consecutive sentences/totality/guidelines/extensions and uplifts re driving disqualification
• R v Haddad [2024] (unlawful sentence for a Bail Act offence)
• Chief Constable of Cleveland Police and Jemmett [2024] (a very interesting consideration by the High Court concerning the refusal of a District Judge to make a Domestic Violence Protection Order)
• Rv Raytt [2024] (sentenced for a Bail Act offence that had not been committed - the failure related to non appearance on a summons)
• R v Black [2024] (a consideration by the Court of Appeal of the sentence in a firearms case)
• R v Kelt [2024] (appropriateness of the sentence that had been imposed where the defendant had effectively served the sentence upon remand)
• R v Shotayo [2024] (youth remands and qualifying curfews - the circumstances in which these should be credited against the detention aspect of the sentence)
• Grier and the DPP [2024] (the High Court considering a number of points in this case stated including whether identification procedures should have been held where identification had not been disputed at the police station stage of the proceedings)
• The DPP and Ridings [2024] (the High Court considering burdens and standard of proof in a hip-flask defence case)
• Thompson and the Crown Prosecution Service [2024] the High Court considering whether or not the words ‘Rambo 1st blood’ on a zombie knife meant that it was caught by the 1988 Order)

This webinar was recorded on 6th December 2024

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