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Private prosecutions – A route to justice for the charity sector
Sophie Tang
10 June 2019
SRA Price Transparency: Review confirms nearly 1 in 5 firms not complying at all
The SRA’s Price Transparency Rules (‘the Rules’) came into force on 6 December 2018, following which, in in February 2019, the SRA has published a ‘topic guide’ setting out its approach to enforcement of the Rules. One ‘proactive tool’ in the SRA’s toolkit to assist it in the identification of non-compliance, is ‘random web sweeps.’
7 June 2019
Government launches consultation on building and fire safety reforms
On 6 June the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government launched a consultation on building and fire safety regulation. The consultation ‘Building a Safer Future: Proposals for reform in the building safety regulatory system’ is the fourth since Dame Hackitt’s Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety in which she made 53 recommendations, all of which were accepted by the government. Hackitt’s review concluded that the current system for ensuring fire safety in high rise buildings was not fit for purpose and recommended a new regulatory framework
4 June 2019
The cannabis industry is clearly in flux
Following on from our previous blog Confused, Bewildering, Dubious? Cannabidiol in food and drinks: What does the future hold? - let’s get back to basics.
There 113 identified cannabidiols aka CBD’s found in the cannabis plant. There is much debate around the efficacy of CBD oil that does not contain the active ingredient, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). THC is known to be the principle psychoactive constituent of cannabis.
29 May 2019
The duty of candour applies to represented and unrepresented private prosecutors
On the 26th of October 2018 the High Court consisting of Gross LJ and Sweeney LJ granted an order for costs against the private prosecutor in R (on the application of Kay and Scan-Thors (UK) Limited) v Leeds Magistrates’ Court [2018] EWHC 1233 (Admin) to the sum of £250,000.
29 May 2019
Victim Impact Statement for Business: your opportunity to be heard
We often act for businesses who have been the victims of crime. The Code of Practice for Victims of Crime (‘the Victims’ Code’) allows an opportunity for the voice of the business to be heard by way of an Impact Statement for Business (ISB).