The newly released report from Victim Support, titled Suffering for Justice, reveals that the court process is severely re-traumatising victim-survivors of sexual violence, contributing to mental health crises including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), suicidal...
Raneem’s Law is a new initiative aimed at enhancing responses to domestic violence, named in memory of Raneem Oudeh, who, along with her mother Khaola Saleem, was murdered by Raneem’s ex-partner, Janbaz Tarin, in Solihull, UK, in 2018. This initiative is...
This week a report (“Kroll Report”) exposed further weaknesses in the Post Office’s IT systems, revealing that many more subpostmasters may have been wrongfully accused of fraud. The Kroll report and its findings on the Post Office’s Capture...
Section 199 of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 creates a new offence of failing to prevent fraud. The offence is expected to come into force in early 2025, giving businesses time to prepare for it. The new offence of failure to prevent fraud is...
In the case of Attorney General’s Reference on a Point of Law No 1 of 2023 [2024] EWCA Crim 243, the Court of Appeal considered the defence of “lawful excuse” in the context of criminal damage committed by protestors. In 2020, a group targeted the...
There are lots of different offences that might be categorised as “anti-social behaviour”, and these are routinely prosecuted in the criminal courts. In many cases, the individual instances of criminality are towards the lower end of the scale. They are...
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