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Private prosecutions – A route to justice for the charity sector
Sophie Tang
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.
10 July 2018
Beyond #Brexit: new anti-money laundering regime agreed
No sooner are we one year into the new regime under the Money Laundering Regulations 2017 than a further EU instrument has been adopted. The Fifth Money Laundering Directive was formally adopted on 19 June 2018 with a deadline of 10 January 2020 as the date by which EU Member States have to transpose the provisions into national law.
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