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Private prosecutions – A route to justice for the charity sector
Sophie Tang
30 March 2017
Thames Water receives record £20m fine for polluting rivers
On 22 March 2017, Thames Water was ordered to pay fines and costs amounting to over £20m for six separate water pollution incidents on the River Thames and its tributaries.
28 March 2017
Does Justice really need to impact your family life?
It has long been acknowledged that humans only concentrate for short periods of time: we get bored, our minds wander, concentrating for long periods of time is tiring. The court day is designed with this in mind, days are shorter than may be expected, regular breaks are taken particularly in the Crown Court where the most serious cases are heard.
28 March 2017
New measures to support victims of sex crime should not be rushed into
On the 19 March 2017, in an exclusive interview with The Sunday Times, The Justice Secretary, Elizabeth Truss, announced that from September 2017 adult complainants in trials for sexual offences will be able to choose to have their cross-examination pre-recorded in advance of the trial. This follows a similar pilot scheme run since the beginning of 2014 at three crown courts (Kingston, Leeds and Liverpool) for child witnesses and those with mental or physical disorders.
28 March 2017
Cutting red tape: A review of the UK’s Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Financing of Terrorism regime
Earlier this month, the Government published its Cutting red tape review of the UK’s Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Financing of Terrorism regime (see here). The review was led by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and first launched in 2015. It is one of a series of reviews and aims to identify if and where regulations are enforced in an ineffective way whilst imposing unnecessary burdens on legitimate, law-abiding businesses.
27 March 2017
Prosecuting companies for crimes against humanity
On the 2nd of March, French-Swiss company LafargeHolcim issued a statement accepting that it had indirectly funded illegal armed groups in Syria in order to continue its operations there. This statement came in response to mounting pressure in the press, coupled with a criminal complaint made against them in November 2016 by French NGO Sherpa and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights.
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