The Home Secretary has appointed Kate Blackwell QC as Counsel to the Jermaine Baker Public Inquiry

Posted on Wednesday, July 29th, 2020 at 8:54 am

Kate Blackwell QC has been appointed to act as Counsel to the Inquiry into the shooting of Jermaine Baker by a firearms officer of the Metropolitan Police in Wood Green in 2015. At a virtual preliminary hearing on 28 July 2020 the Chairman HH Clement Goldstone QC fixed the substantive…Read more

Richard English contributes to Reuters Fact Check on Face Covering Laws

Posted on Monday, July 27th, 2020 at 8:39 am

Fact check: Police in Scotland, England and Northern Ireland have power to enforce face-covering laws, with Wales to follow Posts shared online have claimed British police have no power to arrest or fine people for not wearing masks. This claim is misleading. England, Scotland and Northern Ireland all have rules…Read more

The Sentencing Code: Order out of Chaos

Posted on Friday, July 24th, 2020 at 12:15 pm

INTRODUCTION For the vast majority of the practising lives of most lawyers specialising in crime, the provisions relating to sentencing have been a source of constant complaint: multiple statutes, sometimes amended before they came into effect, often seem designed to make accessing the law, and working out which provisions actually…Read more