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Permission to Visit - Goldilocks and the Three Bank Statements
Robert Houchill
23 November 2018
Changes to the Code for Crown Prosecutors
David Sleight discusses the revised ‘Code for Crown Prosecutors’ and suggests that a shift in policy to encourage prosecutors to carefully review cases and exculpatory evidence at an early stage is a good idea in principle. Sleight argues the revised code is, however, ‘yet another example of a well-intentioned policy change that has little or no consideration as to what is happening on the ground’.
21 November 2018
A South Korean president will not prevent the abuse of INTERPOL: root and branch reform is needed
A collective sigh of relief was heard in the UK this morning at the news that Alexander Prokopchuk has not been elected as the new head of INTERPOL. In the current climate, post-Skripal, it is no surprise that the prospect of a former insider in the Kremlin’s interior ministry as head of the international body would cause alarm. Such relief, however, may be premature. Prokopchuk remains not only a vice-President of INTERPOL but also a member of the important Commission for the Control of Files of INTERPOL (CCF) which decides on the admissibility of red notices (although he absents himself when Russian cases are being discussed).
21 November 2018
Ensuring crime doesn’t pay: confiscation regime under review
The Law Commission has been tasked by the Home Office to consider reforms to the confiscation regime “to ensure they’re effectively depriving convicted offenders of their ill-gotten gains”. Noting that the confiscation regime is a potentially valuable tool by which offenders can be deprived of any benefits they have gained through criminal conduct, the Commission acknowledged that the law in this area is unduly complex and can hamper the effective recovery of the proceeds of crime.
16 November 2018
#Brexit Withdrawal Agreement: transitional arrangements for the European Arrest Warrant
The draft agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union was presented to the House of Commons on 14 November 2018. It included, under Title V, provisions for on-going police and judicial co-operation.
15 November 2018
ICO secures first prosecution under Computer Misuse Act
In a move which demonstrates that it has real teeth as a criminal prosecutor, the Information Commissioners’ Office has secured its first prosecution under the Computer Misuse Act 1990.
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