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Deepfakes to Deletion Orders: Tackling technology enabled sexual offending in the Crime and Policing Act 2026
Sophie Tang
12 April 2018
Youth Justice Part Two: Mini sex offenders or just kids?
Following the first blog in our mini-series on youth justice, in which we provided a brief guide to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act for young people, we address in this blog the issue of whether children are considered mini sex offenders or 'just kids' and what developments may be on the horizon in 2018.
5 April 2018
Sanctions in the spotlight: Treasury Committee inquiry
With less than a year to go to the UK’s official departure from the European Union, Parliament’s workload - with the EU Withdrawal Bill – is immense. In addition, one of the key “Brexit bills” - the Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions Bill - is wending its way through the legislative process (see our related blogs). As one of the major stand alone post-Brexit Bills it is receiving considerable scrutiny, most recently at the House of Commons committee stage (Fifth Sitting) in March. Meanwhile, in February the Government responded to the House of Lords EU Committee report “Brexit: Sanctions Policy”.
5 April 2018
International Criminal Law – A Month in Review – March 2018
On 8 March 2018, ICC judges upheld an order that $1 million should be paid as reparations to the victims of the attack on the village of Bogoro in 2003.
5 April 2018
Caution Needed - Private Prosecutions and Criminal Cautions
A simple caution is an out-of-court disposal intended for low level, mainly first time, offending. Accepting a caution has never been a straightforward decision however, one significant benefit was the reassurance that – in the usual course of events - a person would only be prosecuted for an offence when they had been issued with a simple caution, if...
5 April 2018
Tongue splitting, ear removal and branding - the limits of consent as a defence to extreme body modification
Split ‘lizard’ tongues, tattooed eyeballs, genital beading and ear shaping are just a handful of unconventional body modification procedures people undergo in the UK every day. In March 2018, the Court of Appeal found that certain body modification procedures did in fact amount to serious harm and wounding, and that the customer’s consent could not amount to a defence for causing these ‘injuries’. In light of this, practitioners currently carrying out these procedures may need to revaluate their practises.
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