R v Blackman
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judge | Lady Justice Hallett |
| Judgment Date | 05 August 2014 |
| Neutral Citation | [2014] EWCA Crim 1718,[2014] EWCA Crim 1029 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) |
| Docket Number | Case No: 2014/00049/B5,No: 201400049 B5 |
| Date | 05 August 2014 |
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Serdar Mohammed & Others v Secretary of State for Defence
...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......
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R v Alexander Wayne Blackman
...the nature of the command he exercised and the extreme nature of the stress, the minimum term was reduced to one of eight years: R v Blackman [2015] 1 WLR 1900, [2014] EWCA Crim 6 Subsequently the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) was asked to consider, on the basis of voluminous fu......
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R v Sh and Gj
...see, for example Rv Twaite [2010] EWCA Crim 2973; [2011] 1 WLR 1125 and R v Blackman (Secretary of State forDefence intervening) [2014] EWCA Crim 1029; [2015] 1 WLR 1990. There was no good Servicereason for preventing an application to dismiss to be heard, and good reason to permit suchan a......
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R v Alexander Wayne Blackman
...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) F......
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Court of Appeal
...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......