5KBW Criminal Appeals Newsletter - Issue 3

28 January 2025

The latest edition of The Appeal Brief, the 5KBW Criminal Appeals Unit newsletter is now live. Click here.

In this issue we provide case summaries and comment on recent appeal cases from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) (convictions, sentence, financial crime, prosecution appeals) and the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal.

There is also the latest in a series of articles by Paul Taylor KC, general editor of Taylor on Criminal Appeals, on potential grounds of appeal. In this issue he looks at “Jury irregularities”.

We also have the first “Sentencing Appeals round up” by Harry O’Sullivan, editor of Banks on Sentence.   

Visit the Criminal Appeals section of our website for more information on our Criminal Appeals Unit.

If you would like to discuss instructing the barristers at 5KBW, please contact our Senior clerk, Lee Hughes-Gage.

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