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Press Round-Up: Regulatory and Professional Discipline – May 2026
Jack Garden
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.
18 May 2015
Michael Gove is given 100 days to abolish the Human Rights Act
Michael Gove, the new Justice Secretary under the Conservative government, is being tasked with the abolition of the Human Rights Act 1998 (“HRA”) as contained in his party’s election manifesto and a key part of the new government’s 100-day policy offensive. The Conservative party promised that the HRA would be repealed and replaced with a British Bill of Rights.
22 April 2015
Contempt of Court: Jurors in the dock
As a result of recent, high profile, instances of contempt by jurors, amendments have been made to the statutory regime for juror contempt by the introduction of Sections 68-77 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015. The principal effect of this legislation has been to create specific criminal offences to deal with contempt by jurors.
15 April 2015
Access to justice of greater concern to public than free healthcare?
An online poll commissioned by the Criminal Law Solicitors Association (CLSA) and conducted on 1st and 2nd April 2015 by YouGov has revealed that a higher percentage of those questioned consider that British Citizens have a fundamental right to access to justice than to healthcare which is free at the point of use.
15 April 2015
The Rivlin Report - recommending a way forward for the Criminal Justice System?
Last month His Honour Geoffrey Rivlin QC, former resident judge at Southwark Crown Court and chair of the Criminal Justice and Reform group established by the Bar Council, published a report on “Criminal Justice, Advocacy and the Bar” (The Rivlin Report). The terms of reference of this review were to consider and formulate proposals for the more efficient and effective conduct of the work of the Crown Court, with a particular focus on the representation of individuals by barristers and other advocates. The report puts forward recommendations to address current failings and weaknesses within the Criminal Justice System (CJS) and the tension that exists between the interests of justice and the current state of the public finances.
