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Deepfakes to Deletion Orders: Tackling technology enabled sexual offending in the Crime and Policing Act 2026
Sophie Tang
8 November 2017
Criminalising Children
Last week Sir James Munby called for the CPS to review its charging policy for children to divert them away from the criminal courts. Speaking at a lecture held by the Howard League for Penal Reform he suggested that the family courts could be provided with an enhanced jurisdiction to enable them to deal with some of the criminal cases currently dealt with by the Youth Court (the Youth Court currently deals with criminal cases involving young people aged 10 to 17. Cases involving more serious offences or involving an adult co-defendant will generally be dealt with in the Crown Court instead).
2 November 2017
Covert recordings and coercive behaviour - an area ripe for reform?
Last week, it was reported in broadsheet newspapers that Sir James Munby, the most senior family court judge in England and Wales, suggested that “widespread distrust […] of the competence or even the integrity of the family justice system and of the professionals involved in it” is one of the reasons for a rise in the use covert recordings among those involved in family court proceedings.
1 November 2017
Flexible Operating Hours: The defendant’s perspective
In March this year the Ministry of Justice announced the Flexible Operating Hours (FOH) pilot. Following a delay to the implementation of the FOH pilot the MoJ has published a “prospectus” – in effect, a consultation – which gives some indication of the issues under consideration since the pilot was announced earlier this year (available here).
26 October 2017
HMRC takes on off-shore tax evasion
HMRC has introduced new criminal offences targeting individuals who have income or gains outside of the UK and evade their UK income tax or capital gains tax responsibilities.
26 October 2017
Transaction Reporting fine highlights the importance FCA places on correct data
The Financial Conduct Authority announced on 23 October 2017 that it had fined Merrill Lynch International £34,524,000 for failing to report 68.5 million exchange traded derivative transactions between 12 February 2014 and 6 February 2016.
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