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As part of the Inquiries and Inquests Practice Group Winter Series, Dermot Keating KC and Clementine Simon analyse the recent House of Lords report on Public Inquiries and question whether this will lead to any changes in 2025. The profile of public...
Despair: a word that suffers from its overuse, but which nails the mood of the criminal Bar and those who work in the Criminal Justice System (CJS). “CJS” itself has become a term rather akin to the historian’s definition of the Holy Roman...
Revamped for a new age? I. Background For decades the Official Secrets Act 1911 (“OSA”) and its subsequent iterations of 1920, 1923,1939 and 1989 have been the centrepiece of the UK’s legal apparatus for combatting the harmful activities...
Defendants and practitioners will be familiar with the substantial amount of time it now takes for complex cases to come to court and for subsequent confiscation proceedings to be finalised. Due to Covid-19 and the increasing backlog, there is now frequently...
As of 27 November 2024, Domestic Abuse Protection Orders (“DAPOs”) are being piloted in Greater Manchester, parts of South London (Croydon, Bromley, and Sutton) and the British Transport Police. What is a DAPO? A DAPO is a civil order...
Rare is the case that does not feature some aspect of digital technology. The House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee identified that “ Digital evidence is now a key component in many criminal trials…[estimating that]…90%...
The Public Authority (Accountability) Bill (163 2016-17) [1] , is potentially an important new law, as it aims: to set a requirement on public institutions, public servants and officials to act in the public interest and with...
It is a common misconception amongst some practitioners that the service of a defence statement in Crown Court proceedings is a choice, rather than an obligation. This, incorrect, line of thought holds that the service, or not, of a defence statement is...
The court may impose a Sexual Harm Prevention Order ('SHPO') where a person is convicted of an offence contained in either schedule 3 or 5 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (s. 345 of Sentencing Act 2020: ‘SA 2020’). The power also arises...
The Financial Conduct Authority has today issued a press release announcing that it is "crack[ing] down on illegal finfluencers", a term used to describe social media "influencers" who use their platforms to advertise or promote financial...