NLJ this week: Crime Brief—equality before the law?

In this week’s NLJ Crime Brief, David Walbank KC considers a recent, unusual case which demonstrates ‘it is very much more than a highfalutin phrase’. It involves misuse of state surveillance, anonymous phone calls and more, but a central issue in the case was the doctrine of state immunity.

Walbank will pick up on this fascinating thread in his next Crime Brief, where he will examine a very different case that tested the limits of the principle of equality before the law. In that case, an attempted murderer claimed clinical negligence during the treatment of injuries he sustained in a knife attack on his wife.