THEY APPEALED

The Court of Appeal of England and Wales was created in 1875 and is split into two permanent Divisions; the Civil Division (which hears family cases as well as a range of civil appeals) and the Criminal Division which hears appeals against criminal convictions and sentences.  The Industrial Revolution led to an increase in the number and complexity of court cases and the need for court reform to deal with them.  The Court of Appeal was created as part of this new court. Following reforms contained in the Constitutional Reform Act 2005.

For most people the Court of Appeal is of interest mainly when high profile criminal cases are involved but for many reasons the civil matters can be as highly significant as are the ferociously  paddling  webbed feet of a swan apparently moving effortlessly and serenely on the surface of a meandering river.  The following links are to some Court of Appeal decisions that are unlikely to feature in any but specialist journals or websites.

The following is of interest because it focuses on when a post on social media is considered merely objectionable or hateful. 

Some [many?] readers will be aware of the case in 2015, when Shamima Begum, along with two other schoolmates, travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State (IS) group and Begum was stripped of her British citizenship in 2019 after being found in a Syrian camp.  An unrelated but similar equally tragic case was heard recently at the Court of Appeal.

Immigration and its corollary deportation are probably amongst the top considerations of all our political parties` leaders and a matter of huge interest for many in this country.  The many possible interventions in the path of the deportation of immigrants legal and illegal are welcome fodder for the hordes of rabble rousers at all levels of the political spectrum.  This is a recent case. 

More than once I have opined that sometimes Scots law appears to offer a more logical road to justice than that of England and Wales.  Academics within the legal profession might find  Scots Law Influencing English Law on Deposits and Debt within Edinburgh Private Law Blog of interest.

Increasingly media items on the pros, cons, merits and safeguarding of whistleblowers grab our attention but it`s not always a bed of roses for those subsidised or not by interested parties  who consider themselves unjustly treated by large organisations or corporations.  Some are won and some are lost. 

Finally today there is the case of the chicken shops and their potential customers.  On the assumption that many of the sales at such establishments take place late in the evening when some of these customers might be worse for wear from over indulgence at local hostelries does the logo at the aforementioned takeaways have much significance?  Read what the Court of Appeal decided. 

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