Ratifying the Istanbul Convention The Criminal Law (Extraterritorial Jurisdiction) Act 2019 was enacted in Ireland a few weeks ago. The primary purpose of the Act … Read more

Facts of the Beghal case In a decision handed down a few weeks ago in Beghal v United Kingdom (App. no.4755/16), the Grand Chamber of … Read more

In a decision handed down a few weeks ago, in the joined cases R (Hallam) v Secretary of State for Justice; R (Nealon) v Secretary … Read more

‘Upskirting’ has been made a criminal offence by the Voyeurism (Offences) Act 2019 which amends the Sexual Offences Act 2003. ‘Upskirting’ refers broadly to the … Read more

State collusion in the murder of its own citizens is not something that one would expect to find within the UK. Yet it was a … Read more

The Home Secretary has just announced an intention to introduce “knife crime prevention orders” as part of a broader strategy in response to the recent … Read more

In its decision in DPP v Brown [2018] IESC 67, handed down just before Christmas, the Irish Supreme Court addressed the vexed question of when … Read more

A few weeks ago, the Minister for Prisons in England and Wales was reported in the media as announcing that the government was considering “banning … Read more

The report of the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland was published in September 2018 (see Criminal Justice Notes 2018). It is the … Read more

The law in England and Wales recognises several different categories of custodial sentence. These include: a determinate sentence; an extended determinate sentence (EDS); a special … Read more