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Deepfakes to Deletion Orders: Tackling technology enabled sexual offending in the Crime and Policing Act 2026
Sophie Tang
18 June 2018
Multi-agency co-operation to tackle bribery and corruption
Compensation for victims of economic crime overseas
Six months on from the launch of the Home Office’s Anti-Corruption Strategy 2017-20, key commitments are now being acted on. The first being new joint principles on compensating victims of economic crime overseas.
15 June 2018
Serious and organised crime threats to the UK: 2018 and beyond
Last month the National Crime Agency (‘NCA’) published its annual strategic assessment of Serious and Organised Crime (‘SOC’) in the UK. The data has come from a variety of law enforcement agencies and other sources including the National Cyber Security Centre (‘NCSC’).
15 June 2018
Bribery Act 2010: under scrutiny
The House of Lords has appointed an ad hoc Select Committee to consider and report on the Bribery Act 2010. This will examine: the effectiveness of the Act; whether there has been stricter prosecution of corrupt conduct; a higher conviction rate; and, a reduction in such conduct. In launching the inquiry the Committee Chairman confirmed that now is an opportune time to examine the effectiveness of the Act given that the majority of bribery cases are now being prosecuted under the Bribery Act 2010.
14 June 2018
International Criminal Law – A Month in Review – April/May 2018
Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud surrendered to the International Criminal Court on 1 April 2018. Al Hassan was sought for war crimes connected to the period of time when he was chief of the Islamic police in Timbuktu. It is considered a potentially ground-breaking case, as the ICC seeks to prosecute for the crime of persecution of the grounds of gender.
15 May 2018
Dangerous Dogs Act under review – is it fit for purpose?
The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee has been tasked with reviewing whether the current Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 legislation is fit for purpose. This follows recent statistics which suggests that the current legislation, aimed at reducing dog attacks, has monumentally failed, with figures from 2015 suggesting that hospital admissions related to dog attacks has risen 76% from the same period ten years previously.
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