by Levy and Co Solicitors LLP | Nov 30, 2022 | International
In 2016 the Supreme Court held that the joint enterprise laws needed revisiting, holding that previous cases were wrongly decided: ‘The unanimous conclusion of the court is that Chan Wing-Siu and Powell and English did take a wrong turning and these appeals...
by Levy and Co Solicitors LLP | Nov 26, 2022 | Information
The Law Commission has published new reforms to overhaul the system for recovering the proceeds of criminal activities. The reforms, which are the culmination of a Home Office-commissioned review, would enhance enforcement powers and could lead to the recovery of...
by Levy and Co Solicitors LLP | Nov 26, 2022 | Information
The Attorney General has the power to refer to the Court of Appeal sentences for certain offences which they believe to be unduly lenient. This is sometimes called the unduly lenient sentence scheme. The scheme was established in the Criminal Justice Act 1988 and came...
by Levy and Co Solicitors LLP | Nov 3, 2022 | Crime
Police recorded crime figures in 2021/22 show that there were 155,841 offences where one or more of the centrally monitored hate crime strands were deemed to be a motivating factor. This represented a 26% increase on figures for 2020/21. Since April 2015, there have...
by Levy and Co Solicitors LLP | Nov 2, 2022 | News
A new public order bill is currently before parliament and may trigger a more authoritarian approach to protest rights. Introducing the bill, then Secretary of State for the Home Office Priti Patel spoke of an increase in disruption and criminal behaviour during...
