The attorney general appeals the 32-month prison sentence passed on Joseph Smith for causing death by dangerous driving. He was jailed in February for killing pensioner Jean Watmore, from Bristol, when his lorry ploughed into the back of her daughter's car near Bodmin while he was changing radio stations. Referred to the Court of Appeal as a potentially unduly lenient sentence.
Arthur Simpson-Kent, the partner of former EastEnders actress Sian Blake, appeals his whole life sentence for murdering her and their two children after learning she was going to leave him and take them with her. Watch the broadcast, in association with Sky News.
Appeal against sentence: Azhar Islam Khan, for tax evasion. Criminal defence solicitor jailed for 18 months in January for lying about income from his Wembley-based City Law Solicitors in order to steal more than £60,000.
The family of Mark Duggan, whose shooting by police sparked the 2011 London riots, appeal a High Court ruling that the jury at his inquest was right to rule he was lawfully killed.
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