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Permission to Visit - Goldilocks and the Three Bank Statements
Robert Houchill
5 March 2018
Guest blog: Corporate criminal liability under international law
The Kingsley Napley International Conference 2018 held a panel debate on “Considering corporate liability for human rights abuses and international crimes, now and in the future.” Read this blog from Alessandra De Tommaso as part of our follow up series of blogs.
2 March 2018
IWD: Women in Criminal Law – we’ve made a start but we’ve a long way to go
Last night saw the launch event of Women in Criminal Law (WiCL), hosted in the beautiful Law Society Hall, featuring inspirational speeches from eminent women lawyers
1 March 2018
Coercive control and its effect on family court cases
It is now three years since the Serious Crimes Act 2015 received royal assent, creating a new offence of coercive behaviour in intimate or familial relationships. Last week the Sentencing Council recommended harsher sentences for offences in a domestic setting that have the capacity for lasting psychological and emotional effect. These changes not only have an impact on criminal cases of domestic abuse, but also divorce and family justice related cases too, because criminal proceedings often have a bearing on divorce and children cases.
27 February 2018
Mobile Fingerprinting Raises Privacy Issues
The Home Office have recently announced that that Police will start to introduce mobile fingerprinting technology. According to the Home Office Press Release...
27 February 2018
Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill – Second Reading
The Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill (“the Bill”) received its second reading in the House of Commons on 20 February 2018. (See our related blog)
The Bill has been introduced to address the fact that, following Brexit, the UK could face being in breach of its international obligations if it does not have in place powers to impose sanctions. At present, many of the UK’s powers to impose sanctions are derived via the European Communities Act 1972 (ECA), which will be repealed in March 2019.
- Controlling and coercive behaviour
- Corporate crime
- Corporate manslaughter and health and safety
- Crime and justice
- Cyber crime
- Extradition and international crime
- Financial crime and financial regulatory enforcement
- Fraud
- Internal investigations
- Legal Updates
- Online Safety Regulation
- Police investigations
- Proceeds of Crime
- The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act
- Unexplained Wealth Orders
- Youth crime and justice