https://www.kingsleynapley.co.uk/insights/blogs/criminal-law-blog/the-crime-and-policing-act-2026KohanaPHPSophie Tang and Sacha Josehttps://www.kingsleynapley.co.uk/insights/blogs/criminal-law-blog/deepfakes-to-deletion-orders-tackling-technology-enabled-sexual-offending-in-the-crime-and-policing-act-2026Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0100On 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.https://www.kingsleynapley.co.uk/insights/blogs/criminal-law-blog/deepfakes-to-deletion-orders-tackling-technology-enabled-sexual-offending-in-the-crime-and-policing-act-2026Lord Carter of Haslemere CB and Rebecca Niblockhttps://www.kingsleynapley.co.uk/insights/blogs/criminal-law-blog/extradition-without-safeguards-the-troubling-reach-of-the-crime-and-policing-act-2026Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0100Imagine 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. https://www.kingsleynapley.co.uk/insights/blogs/criminal-law-blog/extradition-without-safeguards-the-troubling-reach-of-the-crime-and-policing-act-2026Caroline Dayhttps://www.kingsleynapley.co.uk/insights/blogs/criminal-law-blog/corporate-criminal-liability-for-all-crime-an-expansive-approachTue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0100On 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.  https://www.kingsleynapley.co.uk/insights/blogs/criminal-law-blog/corporate-criminal-liability-for-all-crime-an-expansive-approach