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The End of Leasehold Flats? A Breakdown of the Draft Commonhold and Leasehold Bill
Úna Campbell
16 July 2018
Revised PACE Codes of Practice coming into force
The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Codes of Practice) (Revision of Codes C, E, F and H) Order 2018 changes will bring the codes in line with changes in legislation, policy, operational policing practice and case law. These changes to Codes C (detention), E (audio recording of interviews), F (visual recording of interviews) and H (detention – terrorism) come into effect on 31 July 2018. This blog sets out the key changes due to come into force.
16 July 2018
Long arm of the law: new powers to gather electronic evidence overseas
The Crime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill puts forward a new proposal to speed up the process of securing access to electronic evidence held outside the UK. The legislation is rapidly making its way through parliament, and has received little attention thus far. The Overseas Production Order (OPO) would, no doubt, enable information to be shared across borders much more quickly. Nevertheless, the proposals as set out should be assessed with a critical eye: the safeguards for the data subject are limited, with few checks and balances protecting the rights of the individual.
16 July 2018
FCA: Criminal prosecutions for AML systems and controls failings – a step too far?
In a recent speech, Mark Steward, Director of Enforcement and Market Oversight at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), addressed how the FCA is responding to the UK's October 2017 National Risk Assessment of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing, which identified an emerging risk of money laundering in capital markets.
12 July 2018
What is “sextortion” and what can you do about it?
“Celebrity Sextortion” is a new Channel 4’s programme, which airs tonight and follows Dan Lobb as he seeks to find out how a private and sexually explicit video of him was released online. The promotion for the programme refers to a Skype video sex session with a Twitter follower he had been flirting with online and it describes this worrying trend as a “very modern cautionary tale”.
10 July 2018
Celebrating 20 Years of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
The idea of an international court which could try political leaders for war crimes was first proposed following the First World War. That ambition was realised on 17 July 1998 with the signing of the Rome Statue leading to the formation of the International Criminal Court (“the ICC”), the first permanent international court tasked with trying the most serious international crimes.
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