Criminal Case Law 2025 Roundup - A Year in Review

Introduction

It is important that criminal lawyers keep themselves updated with case law in order that the appropriate advice is given and that the appropriate representations are made in Court, it being part of the duty of the advocate to assist the court wherever possible.

This short webinar will review 12 important decisions handed down by both the High Court and the Court of Appeal in 2025.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• Rex v Maughan [2025] EWCA Crim 1302 - Qualifying Curfew issues and the wrong type of custodial sentence imposed
• Rex v Barker [2025] EWCA Crim 1293 - Incorrect sentence imposed at the Crown Court when dealing with summary only offences
• The King (on the application of CC) and Plymouth Youth Court [2025] EWHC 2675 - Expedited judicial review of a decision of a District Judge to retain jurisdiction in the Youth Court
• DPP and Jackson [2025] EWHC Crim 2797 - A High Court ruling on whether or not the proceedings for a summary-only offence had been instituted in time
• R and BVA [2025] EWCA Crim 1359 1172 (Admin) - Was consent to sexual touching negated where there was a lack of consent to the filming of it
• Rex v Russell [2025] EWCA Crim 1326 - A consideration of whether or not the Judge had had the power to make a Sexual Harm Prevention Order
• Rex v Danilowski [2025] EWCA Crim 1279 - Statements caught on body cam footage and the res gestae exception to the admissibility of hearsay evidence
• Rex v HBF [2025] EWCA Crim 1282 - Sentencing issues when dealing with a 14-year-old who had been 13 at the time of the commission of the offences
• Rex v Wood [2025] EWCA Crim 1257 - A careful consideration by the Court of Appeal of whether or not the credit should have been a 3rd rather than 25%
• DPP and Nthoi [2025] EWHC 1197 (Admin) - A High Court consideration of whether or not the Court was entitled to exclude all of the evidence because of the late service of some of the evidence
• The King (on the application of Olins) [2025] EWHC 263 (Admin) - The High Court considering whether or not the matter should have been dealt with by way of an argument for special reasons following conviction
• DPP and Jobson [2025] EWHC 1385 (Admin) - The High Court considering whether or not theft by way of low-value shoplifting was time-barred where the proceedings were brought outside of the 6 month time limit for summary offences

This pre-recorded webinar will be available to view from Wednesday 4th March 2026

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