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  • Appeal - whether the Criminal Appeal Act 1968, s.33(2), which requires the Court of Appeal to certify a point of law is involved in its decision before there can be an appeal to the Supreme Court, is objectionable for bias or incompatibility with human rights (see latest issue).

  • Legal professional privilege - whether defendant who gives evidence of his communications with his solicitor in order to rebut an allegation of recent fabrication thereby waives the privilege (see latest issue).

  • Causation - guidance on when the chain of causation will be broken by a novus actus interveniens in the context of causing death by driving (see latest issue).

  • Making allowance for time spent in custody on remand - whether judge can direct, at the time of imposing a suspended sentence, that a direction under the CJA 2003, s.240, will not be given in the event of activation (ee latest issue).

  • Barrister CPD Paper 10 and Solicitor CPD Paper 13 now available online, to be completed by August 31, 2010.

  • Issue 34 of Criminal Law Week will be published on September 27, 2010.
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