Welcome to the website of the European Criminal Law Association - ECLA(UK)

The European Criminal Law Association (ECLA UK) is an unincorporated association of practitioners, academics and others interested in the emerging body of European Criminal law - a body which will not be going away on Brexit day and which many of us will continue to need (or want) to keep an eye on for many years to come. We have been going since 1980 and we intend to continue to study, discuss and provide information on the development of the criminal law in Europe by means of seminars, publications and this website. If you are not a member, you can join simply and cheaply.

Latest News

Davies, G., & Carrapico, H. (Eds.). (in press). UK-EU Police and Judicial Cooperation Post-Brexit. Hart Publishing. Available to read online here

ECLAN 2025 Annual Conference on "The Presumption of Innocence: Modern Trends and Contemporary Challenges", took place at the University of Latvia in Riga on 15-16 May 2025. Copies of the presentations are available on the conference website here 

The ECLAN Summer School was held in Brussels (and online) between 30 June to 4 July 2025. The program is available here.

Now Available the latest edition of EUCRIM here

Next ECLA(UK) Seminar will be in the Autumn 

ECLA(UK) 2024 Annual General was held online on Monday 9th December 2024. The President's report is available here 

Other News

Forthcoming Criminal Law events organised by the Academy of European Law here 

Published by one of our members: The Idea of a Chinese Arrest Warrant by Yahon Yin on the Publications page here

 Germany’s draft Bill on International Cooperation in Criminal Matters – see Thomas Wahl’s article on Eucrim (https://eucrim.eu/news/draft-bill-for-new-german-law-on-international-cooperation-in-criminal-matters/)

EPPO’s Operational Activities April – June 2024 by  Cornelia Riehle LL.M. ( see https://eucrim.eu/news/eppos-operational-activities-april-june-2024/ )

On 30 April 2024, Directive (EU) 2024/1203 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 April 2024 on the protection of the environment through criminal law was published in the Official Journal of the EU. The Directive establishes updated minimum EU-wide standards for the definition of environmental criminal offences and penalties.

ECJ Rules in the EncroChat case  https://curia.europa.eu/juris/documents.jsf?num=C-670/22. See also Thomas Wahl’s comments on EUCRIM website https://eucrim.eu/news/ecj-ruled-in-encrochat-case/

In Case C‑202/24 [Alchaster] the CJEU considered the extent to which the UK continues to benefit from the presumption of mutual recognition in criminal matters. The judgment can be found here.

Events

Outline programme for the remainder of 2025 

To see information about previous events held by ECLA, see the Past Events page.

Data Policy

Our Data policy can be found with our Constitution but it is very simple. ECLA’s Honorary Secretary and Treasurer keep your name, email and possibly also your address and phone number (culled from your membership application) safely on their own computers and use the data to send out flyers, papers and other information relating to ECLA or other organisations with a similar focus. You can check or change what we hold by contacting either official.