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Deepfakes to Deletion Orders: Tackling technology enabled sexual offending in the Crime and Policing Act 2026
Sophie Tang
10 February 2023
International students under criminal investigation – what criminal, regulatory and immigration issues do I need to consider?
Investigations undertaken by universities are not criminal proceedings, even if they are looking into conduct that may be capable of amounting to a criminal offence. A disciplinary process is an internal, civil matter which deals with a potential breach of the University’s rules/code of conduct. Conversely, a criminal process is an external procedure outside of the University’s control, and will consider whether the student complained of has committed a criminal offence.
8 February 2023
Environmental Law Quarterly Update - Q3 & Q4 2022
This quarterly environmental law update provides a summary of news stories in the period July 2022 – December 2022.
7 February 2023
Wet wipes, washing powder and water under the microscope: CMA announces its decision to focus on green claims in the fast moving consumer goods sector
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has announced a significant expansion of its project to examine misleading green claims. The regulator will be investigating a range of everyday essential items, including food and drink, cleaning products, toiletries, and personal care items, and will be considering whether companies are complying with UK consumer protection law in the environmental claims they are make about those products.
3 February 2023
What does failure to prevent mean for the accountancy sector?
A comment made by Minister of State for Security Thomas Tugendhat during a debate on the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (the Bill) on 25th January has sparked a flurry of media reports and speculation. Tugendhat was confirming that the government supported the inclusion of new corporate criminal offences, based on the failure to prevent (FTP) model, in the Bill.
2 February 2023
‘Made in China’ as Possible Supply Chain Money Laundering
It is estimated that 30% of the world’s production of cotton originates in China. Of that cotton 85% originates in Xinjiang, which is the centre of the Uyghur atrocities. Recently before the High Court, the World Uyghur Congress (“the WUC”) argued that UK authorities were under a duty to block and/or launch money laundering investigations into the many imports of Xinjiang cotton brought into the UK - many by household names in the clothing industry – because of the high likelihood of prison and forced labour forming the start of the supply chain
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