The Inherent Jurisdiction

A very interesting new (and mercifully short!) judgment has been issued by the High Court after a debacle in police custody of the kind I’ve been writing about for well over a decade. If you’re professionally involved in these matters, I do recommend reading all nine pages of the ruling, but I’ll summarise it here […]

IOPC Position Statement

We knew a few weeks back the Independent Office for Police Conduct was working on the production of a ‘position statement‘ on Right Care, Right Person. It has now been published on their website, dated March 2024. The position statement speaks for itself in many respects: it was sought, I believe, because forces and their […]

Rex v Byer

When Her (late) Majesty, Queen Elizabeth died in 2022, I noted one of the things we were told we’d see change was the names of criminal cases. We’d all been used to seeing Regina v Surname but instead, we’d see Rex v Surname. Today’s sentencing at the Old Bailey is actually the first time I’ve […]