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Deepfakes to Deletion Orders: Tackling technology enabled sexual offending in the Crime and Policing Act 2026
Sophie Tang
3 March 2021
COVID-19 Fraud: New Taxpayer Protection Taskforce
In the Budget 2021, presented to Parliament on 3 March, the Chancellor announced that HMRC will establish a taskforce to investigate those who have fraudulently made use of government schemes set up to protect individuals and businesses against the economic impact of COVID-19 – such as the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) (widely referred to as the Furlough scheme) and the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS).
1 March 2021
Thames Water fined for “entirely foreseeable” pollution
Thames Water was sentenced on Friday 26 February 2021 to a fine of £2.3m and ordered to pay costs of almost £90,000. The case is noteworthy both because of the level of the fine imposed and because the Environment Agency (“EA”) uses criminal prosecutions as a means of enforcement relatively rarely.
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.
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