Crime

Articles

25 Sept 2024

The cyber and data security risks facing law firms: How firms can protect themselves and how to manage a security/data breach

Tom Pelham, Global Head of Cyber and Data, Arran Roberts, Partner, and Alexandra O'Hare, Senior Associate, at Kennedys, provide valuable insight into the cyber and data security risks facing law firms, which includes details of the targeted campaigns that are being directed at conveyancing firms

17 Sept 2024

Unlawful act manslaughter - intrinsically and objectively uncertain?

Simon Parsons, Solicitor and Teaching Fellow in Law at Bath Spa University, discusses in detail the law of manslaughter, particularly the legal tests to ascertain whether someone has committed gross negligence manslaughter or unlawful act manslaughter, and how such definitions have evolved through case law

17 Sept 2024

Crypto regulation starts to de-crypt

Following the conviction of John Ross Rennie for his involvement in a cryptocurrency robbery and the seizure of such assets by the courts, Tom Walker, Legal Director and Barrister at Blake Morgan LLP, looks at the regulation of crypto-assets and the range of interventions available

16 Sept 2024

The Payment Systems Regulator’s proposal to lower the APP fraud reimbursement limit

Dan Wyatt, Partner at RPC, shares his thoughts on the unexpected consultation by the UK Payment Systems Regulator on whether the proposed reimbursement limit concerning authorised push payment fraud should be reduced

9 Sept 2024

Fraud and asset recovery: “Catch me if you can”

Natalie Todd, a Partner at Cooke, Young & Keidan shares the highlights from the CYK and Twenty Essex’s LIDW 2024 panel discussion involving contributions from Jon Felce, Luke Pearce KC and Joshua Folkard

22 Aug 2024

The (electric) lamp… Is it time for juries to be replaced by AI?

Edward Hodgson, an Associate at Corker Binning, assesses whether artificial intelligence has improved to such an extent that criminal defendants could be tried by machines

21 Aug 2024

UK banks’ crisis preparedness and emerging risks in 2024

Natalie Todd and Anna-Rose Davies, from Cooke, Young & Keidan, assess the risks facing banks and their customers

16 Aug 2024

A tangled web: ‘substantial injustice’ in fundamental dishonesty claims

Jim Hester, a Barrister at Parklane Plowden Chambers, unpicks the ruling in Kirsty Williams-Henry v Associated British Ports Holdings Limited [2024] EWHC 806 (KB), Cardiff District Registry, Ritchie J, 10 April 2024