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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
25 May 2016
EU Benchmark Regulation
New EU-wide rules, which will apply from November 2017, aim to ensure greater accuracy and integrity of benchmarks in financial instruments. Known as the Benchmark Regulation, it was adopted by the European Council on 17 May. Born out of recent market manipulation scandals the Regulation is intended to restore confidence in financial benchmarks.
23 May 2016
Coping with online disclosure
The lord chief justice has warned that the issue of disclosure of online material is ‘probably the biggest problem that the common law justice system faces’. Lord Thomas was speaking at an event to launch a book on sexual offences. He talked about the amount of court time now taken up by such cases and the impact of ‘sexting’ and social media. Of particular concern was the trend for explicit material of people’s sexual encounters to be stored on phones and posted online. Not only does this raise new and significant issues in relation to disclosure, he argues, but it also adds an onerous dimension to weighing the evidence in trials.
23 May 2016
Criminal Finance Bill: legislative action to back up political commitments
One of the questions following the Anti-Corruption Summit and the media furore over the Panama Papers was whether legislative proposals (and related law enforcement resources) would be delivered to underpin high level political commitments. Seeming to answer this the Queen’s Speech confirmed that a Criminal Finance Bill will be presented to tackle corruption, money laundering and tax evasion - key commitments from the Summit.
19 May 2016
From the Archers to Archbold week ending 15/05/16
Last week Helen pleaded not guilty to the two charges she faces, Attempted murder and in the alternative Grievous Bodily Harm with intent. Her trial has been fixed for September 2016. Helen was refused bail on the basis that she might commit further offences or interfere with prosecution witnesses. In the meantime Rob has started the process of subtly poisoning Henry’s mind and thereby contaminating his evidence. Helen has applied for a place in a mother and baby unit (see our previous post of this series part three ending 24/04/16 for more details of mother and baby units within the prison estate.
11 May 2016
£1.9 bn investment in Cyber security: Government ramps up fight against cybercrime
Britain’s businesses are being urged to better protect themselves from cyber criminals following government research launched this week in the Cyber Security Breaches Survey. The research also shows that in some cases the cost of cyber breaches and attacks to business reached millions, with the most common attacks detected involving viruses, spyware or malware. With one in four large firms experiencing a breach – at least once a month - only half of all firms have taken any recommended actions to identify and address vulnerabilities. Even fewer, about a third of all firms, had formal written cyber security policies and only 10% had an incident management plan in place.
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