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Opportunities for Regulators in the Age of AI
Laura Vignoles
28 May 2026
Deepfakes to Deletion Orders: Tackling technology enabled sexual offending in the Crime and Policing Act 2026
On 29 April 2026, the Crime and Policing Bill received Royal Assent and will take effect as the Crime and Policing Act 2026 (the “CPA”) on 29 June 2026.
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.
5 May 2026
Corporate criminal liability for “all crime”: an expansive approach
On 29 April, the Crime and Policing Bill received Royal Assent, and the Crime and Policing Act 2026 is now on the statute books.* It introduces a further, transformative expansion of corporate criminal liability in the UK so that companies may be held criminally liable where a “senior manager” commits an offence while acting in their actual or apparent authority, for all crimes. This marks a fundamental departure from the current senior manager framework under the Economic Crime Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA) where, currently, corporate liability is restricted to economic crimes.
