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Accountancy regulators confront AI cheating in exams
Zoe Beels
10 June 2024
Knock knock knockin’ on hearing’s door - what happens when the press come to the family court?
Due to the nature of family law disputes, hearings in the family court often contain information which is “private”, intimate, personal, and/or sensitive. While press attendance of family court hearings has been a possibility for many years, in reality the press have tended not to take up this opportunity given the restrictive rules around publication (unless, of course, it is a high-profile person or something particularly salacious).
16 June 2023
Insights from a media litigator: key considerations for dealing with blackmail
Blackmail cases often involve threats to reveal personal and intimate information, accompanied by demands for payment. As a highly experienced media litigator specialising in this field since 2002, and having successfully handled many blackmail cases in the past five years alone, here are some key points to consider if you are being blackmailed
22 May 2023
How to keep family affairs out of the papers
This article first appears in Spear's 22nd May 2019
13 March 2023
Allegations of sexual misconduct in the workplace: innocent until proven 'guilty'?
This week Tony Danker stepped down from his role as director general of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) while an independent investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct takes place.
23 July 2021
When charities are under the media spotlight - how is reputation best protected?
With charities under unprecedented media interest in recent years, the consequences of not dealing with reputation matters well are myriad. Negative press coverage threatens the faith that the public have in a charity which can result in a significant downturn in donations and affect recruitment and morale. Any charity’s reputation once damaged can be difficult to restore. The resources a charity must commit to responding to media enquiries and to any regulatory inquiry can be significant and is time spent away from pursuing the objectives of the charity.