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Tag: Lloyd Jenkins

Get the latest news, insight and recent case history from the Public Defender Service for Lloyd Jenkins, including notable cases.

Dangerous Dogs and Police Powers

Published: 17 November 2022

Football Banning Orders on the rise

Published: 17 November 2022

Protesters be warned – the law has changed

Published: 1 November 2022

Human trafficking and modern slavery defences

Published: 1 November 2022

Confiscation – A continuing act is capable of amounting to a criminal lifestyle

Published: 7 July 2022

Lloyd Jenkins looks at SORAYA [2022] EWCA Crim 602 (3 May 2022) and its implications for POCA cases.

Fact find hearings shouldn’t be under-estimated

Published: 29 June 2022

Lloyd Jenkins reports on a recent ‘Trial of the Facts’ or a ‘Fact Find’ hearing as they are more commonly known.

Lloyd Jenkins wins at the Court of Appeal

Published: 27 June 2022

Lloyd Jenkins, solicitor advocate at the PDS, recently appeared before the Court of Appeal, with leave of the Single Judge, to appeal a sentence of 18 months immediate custody imposed at a local crown court in January 2022.

Abuse of Process – ‘A promise, is a promise’

Published: 14 December 2021

What the case of Mansfield v DPP [2021] EWHC 2938 (Admin) means for an abuse of process defence.