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Private prosecutions – A route to justice for the charity sector
Sophie Tang
25 February 2021
Tackling Racial Injustice: Children and the Youth Justice System
Today JUSTICE has published the latest working party report ‘Tackling Racial Injustice: Children and the Youth Justice System’. I am delighted to have had the opportunity to chair the working party that produced this report. The report makes practical recommendations to reduce BAME disproportionality in the Youth Justice System (YJS) of England and Wales.
18 February 2021
National Grid fined £4 million for incomplete records
A significant multi-million pound fine was imposed last week after National Grid Gas plc pleaded guilty to health and safety offences arising from its failure to make available records for hundreds of properties, which resulted in routine safety inspections not taking place.
5 February 2021
The Territorial Reach of the SFO - The Supreme Court Decides
This morning the Supreme Court handed down its judgment in the case of R (on the application of KBR Inc) v The Director of the Serious Fraud Office. It decided that the SFO does not have the power to compel a foreign company to produce material that company holds overseas. The clarity of the ruling will be welcomed by criminal and corporate practitioners alike.
2 February 2021
Swift condemnation of Labour’s jury proposal is unwarranted - Jonathan Grimes writes for The Law Society Gazette
There has been an immediate and almost universal rejection of Labour’s proposal that juries might be temporarily reduced from 12 to seven as a measure to help reduce the lamentable backlog in Crown Court trials.
29 January 2021
Extradition post-Brexit: the TCA at a glance
The potential fallout from Brexit for extradition and cross-border criminal justice security had been forewarned even before the first vote was cast in the Referendum. The risks to the UK of losing access to SIS II and complicating a relatively simple (albeit not perfect) EAW process were highlighted by many practitioners, law enforcement agencies and politicians.
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