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Deepfakes to Deletion Orders: Tackling technology enabled sexual offending in the Crime and Policing Act 2026
Sophie Tang
15 April 2024
Punishing difference: why are neurodivergent children disproportionately punished by our education and youth justice systems?
The inescapable conclusions is that there is something inherent within our education and youth justice systems that punishes difference.
14 April 2024
Demystifying loss of control
The recent Channel 4 TV programme The Jury: Murder Trial focused attention on the jury trial process, but went for drama and sensationalism over accuracy, as our colleague Greg Foxsmith previously argued. As a result, there was little attention paid to the legal issue in the dramatised case, which was “loss of control” as a partial defence to murder. This may have left some wondering what the actual legal position is.
11 April 2024
Food, fraudulent food
Over the past decade, food fraud has emerged as a particularly pervasive issue, both internationally and within the UK. In recent years, the UK has experienced several high-profile food fraud scandals, involving the mislabelling and adulteration of food products and so raising concerns about the integrity of the food supply train and consumer safety.
10 April 2024
New sentencing guidelines are now in force
On 1 April 2024, a number of new and amended sentencing guidelines came into effect, following publication of the results of a consultation by the Sentencing Council which ran during Autumn 2023.
4 April 2024
Health and Safety / Corporate Manslaughter – Q1 2024
This quarterly update provides a summary of a selection of news stories relating to health and safety law investigations and prosecutions, as well as key corporate manslaughter cases, in the period January 2024 – March 2024.
- 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