by Levy and Co Solicitors LLP | Feb 3, 2022 | Information
The Treasury Committee has published a report on fraud scams and economic crime. The Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of HM Treasury, HMRC and associated public bodies such as the Bank of England and...
by Levy and Co Solicitors LLP | Jan 28, 2022 | Information
The government has announced new proposals to address the way schools deal with avoidable absences. They refer to the current system as a postcode lottery with different approaches to sanctions across the country. Some local authorities did not issue any fines at all...
by Levy and Co Solicitors LLP | Jan 22, 2022 | Information
The backlog in the criminal courts has been an issue for some time. Although the number of outstanding cases grew during the pandemic, there was already a backlog. The government has considered various ways of dealing with the issue, including temporary courts. The...
by Levy and Co Solicitors LLP | Jan 22, 2022 | Information
The government has announced the recruitment of more than 500 staff to work in Community Payback. The aim is to be able to enable offenders to serve an extra 3 million hours of payback each year. The announcement isn’t clear on the reasoning behind the...
by Levy and Co Solicitors LLP | Jan 14, 2022 | Information
The government has announced a 7% increase in policing funding, bringing the total to £1.1 billion. This amounts to a total of £16.9 billion for the financial year 2022/23. The increase is supposed to aid in the implementation of the government’s Beating Crime...
by Levy and Co Solicitors LLP | Jan 14, 2022 | Information
The Law Commission has announced a project to examine how evidence is used in rape proceedings in order to dispel rape myths. The Law Commission is the statutory independent organisation established by the Law Commissions Act of 1965 to evaluate the law and provide...
