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Deepfakes to Deletion Orders: Tackling technology enabled sexual offending in the Crime and Policing Act 2026
Sophie Tang
22 May 2026
Extradition without safeguards: the troubling reach of the Crime and Policing Act 2026
Imagine you are woken up one day with a loud knock at the door. It is the police who have a warrant for your arrest pursuant to an extradition request from a European country which you visited on holiday a few years earlier.
9 September 2025
From Certificates to Belief Statements: The CPS and the Limits of Forum Bar Intervention
The CPS’s June 2025 guidance on the forum bar marks a decisive narrowing of the circumstances in which prosecutor’s belief statements may be issued. Such statements (by which a domestic prosecutor expresses the view that the UK is not the most appropriate jurisdiction for prosecution) have often featured in litigation under sections 19B and 83A of the Extradition Act 2003.
3 July 2025
A System Under Strain: Why It's Time to Rethink the UK’s Approach to Extradition and International Cooperation
As global crime evolves and political landscapes shift, the UK’s legal frameworks for international cooperation and extradition are showing their age. In a new blog, Rebecca Niblock explores the Criminal Law Reform Now Network (CLRNN) Scoping Review (June 2025) which makes a compelling case: the time for reform is now.
9 February 2024
INTERPOL: Priorities for the new Secretary General
We recently wrote about the history and future of INTERPOL as it marked its 100th anniversary at the end of 2023. We observed then that there appears to be an increasing appetite for change at the agency, with some notable reforms taking place over the past decade.
9 February 2024
Part 2 - Still a ‘Special Relationship’? The ‘forum bar’ and the development of the extradition relationship between the UK and the USA
This blog is part two of a two-part blog series. In part one we discussed the forum bar to extradition and the relevant case law of extradition proceedings, following a request from the USA to the UK, in which the forum bar has been successfully argued.
