R v Blackman

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
JudgeLady Justice Hallett
Judgment Date05 August 2014
Neutral Citation[2014] EWCA Crim 1718,[2014] EWCA Crim 1029
Docket NumberCase No: 2014/00049/B5,No: 201400049 B5
Date05 August 2014

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5 cases
  • Serdar Mohammed & Others v Secretary of State for Defence
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 30 July 2015
    ...in a non-international armed conflict, it is subject to its domestic law and the rules of international humanitarian law. This is shown in R v Blackman, where a Royal Marine Sergeant was convicted of murdering an insurgent in Afghanistan after capturing him: see the sentencing remarks of HH......
  • R v Alexander Wayne Blackman
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 15 March 2017
    ...insurgents. (xiii) Ambushes by insurgents and the threat of IEDs was constant; statistics showed that there was an IEDR v Blackman [2015] 1 WLR 1900, [2014] EWCA Crim 1029. 6 Subsequently the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) was asked to consider, on the basis of voluminous further i......
  • R v Alexander Wayne Blackman
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 28 March 2017
    ...on the appeal in 2014 7 There are two factors set out in the judgment of this court on the earlier appeal given on 22 May 2014, [2014] EWCA Crim 1029, [2015] 1 WLR 1900 which are material because we took these factors into account in reducing the sentence by an equivalent of 4 years: i) Fi......
  • R v Sh and Gj
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • Invalid date
    ...application (post, paras 32–39, 41–42). R v Twaite [2011] 1 WLR 1125 and R v Blackman (Secretary of State for Defence intervening) [2015] 1 WLR 1900 APPEAL against preliminary ruling On 4 June 2019 in the Court Martial Court at Caerick before Judge Blacke, Judge Advocate General, an appli......
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1 books & journal articles
  • Court of Appeal
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 81-4, August 2017
    • 1 August 2017
    ...Takingaccount of the extreme nature of the situation, the Court reduced the minimum term of sentence to eightyears, (RvBlackman [2015] 1 WLR 1900; [2014] EWCA Crim 1029).In December 2016, the Criminal Cases Review Commission referred the case for further consider-ation on three grounds:Fur......