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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
24 August 2016
From the Archers to Archbold week ending 21/08/16 - Part 1: Character building
Our main story line has been quiet for some time but as we approach the trial in September, there are a few things of legal significance which are worthy of note. Helen has finally begun to open up about the coercive and controlling behaviour that Rob displayed. Anna (her barrister) is identifying character witnesses and witnesses of fact that may assist with Helen’s defence. Rob is slowly but surely manipulating Henry using sugar and electronics to colour Henry’s view and therefore his evidence.
24 August 2016
From the Archers to Archbold week ending 21/08/16 - Part 1: Character building
Our main story line has been quiet for some time but as we approach the trial in September, there are a few things of legal significance which are worthy of note. Helen has finally begun to open up about the coercive and controlling behaviour that Rob displayed. Anna (her barrister) is identifying character witnesses and witnesses of fact that may assist with Helen’s defence. Rob is slowly but surely manipulating Henry using sugar and electronics to colour Henry’s view and therefore his evidence.
23 August 2016
Tackling Tax Evasion – Finance Act 2016 establishes new criminal offences
Further to our earlier blog in March 2016, the Finance Act 2016 received Royal Assent on 15 September 2016. The Finance Act 2016 creates new criminal offences that remove the need to prove intent for the most serious cases of failing to declare offshore income and gains. This blog post considers the new offences in further detail.
20 August 2016
Sexual Risk Orders – a breach of civil liberties or necessary public protection?
What is a Sexual Risk Order?
A sexual risk order is one of three new civil orders (the others being Sexual Harm Prevention Orders and Notification Orders) available under Part 2 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 as amended by the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014.
3 August 2016
National crime survey – cyber crime central to uplift in fraud
On 21 July, the Office for National Statistics (‘ONS’) released its Crime Survey for England and Wales (‘CSEW’), which examines statistical trends in criminal activity over the year ending March 2016. Its final report offers a detailed picture of criminality in England and Wales.
While overall the trend is one of falling crime – crime having fallen to 6% its lowest level since 1981 – there was an increase in fraud – with a 5% rise. The survey also reports on the trend where fraud is increasingly committed by high tech methods. The CSEW reports that just over half of the 3.8m incidents of fraud (51%, or 1.9 million) were ‘cyber related’. Closely related to such cyber fraud is the separate offence of ‘computer misuse’, of which there were 2.0 million offences. Those computer misuse offences are made up of either virus-related offences (68%, or 1.4 million) or the unauthorised accessing of personal information (32%, or 0.6 million).
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