Contempt of court
Atkinson and another v Varma and others [2020] EWHC 1868 (Ch), [2020] All ER (D) 106 (Jul)
The applicant liquidators’ application to commit the first respondent (V) to prison for contempt of court succeeded. The Chancery Division held that, among other things, V had made false statements in affidavits and witness statements, and he had failed to inform the liquidators of the existence of relevant assets, in breach of an earlier order.
Criminal law
R v RN [2020] EWCA Crim 937, [2020] All ER (D) 109 (Jul)
In allowing the appellant’s appeal against her conviction on the basis of a reconsideration of the verdict by the jury, the Court of Appeal, Criminal Division, held, that the present had not been a clear-cut instance of a jury indicating that there had been a mistake in the way that the verdicts had been delivered, with that indication being provided promptly and the matter being resolved in circumstances which excluded the possibility of any further deliberations and a change of mind.
