At an event last year celebrating the unparalleled contribution made by Professor Clive Walker QC to the law, in particular in the fields of miscarriages of justice and terrorism, one of those present reflected that there seemed to be an absence in the modern criminal...
There has been a huge amount of authoritative commentary on the issue of disclosure in the aftermath of “near misses” like the Liam Allan case. Sadly, in the absence of the scrutiny that followed his case and others, it is unlikely there would be any significant...
On 11 November 2014 Erol Incedal was convicted of possessing a document containing information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism: s 58(1) (b) Terrorism Act 2000 (the 2000 Act). The jury had been unable to reach a...