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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
14 July 2015
Revenge porn: No guarantee of anonymity for complainants
Sections 33-35 of the Criminal Courts and Justice Act 2015 created the offence of “disclosing private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress” in order to provide a mechanism to criminalise the relatively recent phenomenon of “revenge porn.” This offence came into force on 13 April 2015.
25 June 2015
Al-Bashir controversy: has standing of the ICC increased?
Some will argue that the protests following events in South Africa show the world cares about the Hague court.
Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir seemingly owes much to his influential friends in South Africa. Last week he hurriedly returned home from Johannesburg in defiance of a South African court order preventing him from doing so, pending a decision whether to enforce the outstanding arrest warrants of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
24 June 2015
Fraudsters on the inside
There has long been a call to make the reporting of fraud a compulsory requirement, akin to the suspicious activity reports regime in money laundering, so that we have a full picture of the amount of fraud that goes on.
28 May 2015
Magistrates order payment of prosecution costs in excess of £10,000
Earlier this month Flintshire Magistrates’ Court ordered David Pickup to pay £10,384 in prosecution costs after he was found guilty of speeding. With summary trials usually attracting prosecution costs of £500 to £1,000, this was an extraordinarily high sum to be awarded.
26 May 2015
New criminal offence for illegal workers – will it have any impact?
David Cameron has announced his plans to introduce a major Immigration Bill which will provide for a new criminal offence of illegal working as part of a raft of anti-immigration measures. The primary purpose of the new offence is to prosecute illegal workers so that their wages may be seized as the proceeds of crime under the confiscation regime. The offence will apply to migrants who have entered the country illegally as well as those who came to the country legally, but have overstayed.