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Deepfakes to Deletion Orders: Tackling technology enabled sexual offending in the Crime and Policing Act 2026
Sophie Tang
23 October 2020
Coronavirus business loan scheme fraud
In response to the coronavirus (“COVID-19”) pandemic, the government introduced a number of loan schemes in order to assist businesses struggling financially. Recent reports suggest that these schemes, as outlined below, have become a target for fraudulent loan applications, by both genuine businesses and also organised criminal enterprises. This blog briefly examines the various loan schemes in place and the criminal offences which are likely to be the focus of investigating authorities in the coming months.
20 October 2020
Serious Injury by Careless Driving: How Competent Are You?
Tougher sentences and the introduction of a new offence of causing serious injury by careless driving are the reforms proposed for Road Traffic Offences in the recently published Government White Paper on Sentencing Reform. The overhaul, which is currently underway and headed up by the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Robert Buckland, has proposed the following modifications in this area:
13 October 2020
Fitness and propriety investigations: practical considerations
How should regulated firms respond when issues come to light which call into question the fitness and propriety of a member of staff? In the second part of their series of fitness and propriety blogs, Jill Lorimer and Nick Ralph consider best practice. You can read the first part of the series by clicking here.
12 October 2020
Three years on and still no prosecutions for HMRC’s Corporate Criminal Offence
HMRC’s 2015 – 2020 business plan pledged to increase the number of criminal investigations and prosecutions into serious and complex tax crime, focusing particularly on wealthy individuals and corporates. The stated aim was to increase prosecutions in this area to 100 a year by 2020. Key to this strategy was the implementation of the corporate criminal offence (CCO) of failure to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion, which came into force on 30 September 2017.
9 October 2020
Directors disqualified following history of health and safety and waste law breaches
Brother and sister Mark and Rachel Penfold were directors of a waste management company. In February 2016 an employee of the business suffered a serious injury when his arm was caught in a conveyer he was operating whilst at work. The Health and Safety Executive prosecuted the company and both individuals under the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER).
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