Crime

Articles

How Big Tech platforms have turbocharged investment fraud

Mark Kenkre explores how fraudulent investment schemes have proliferated, and how social media companies may be profiting from them.  

Controlling or coercive behaviour in an intimate relationship

Anthony Burton and Mark Soames examine how controlling and coercive behaviour may be prosecuted as non-sexual abuse in a relationship

Hot stuff?: Fireworks, forensics, & familiarising lawyers with science

Chaynee Hodgetts considers the subject of forensic education for lawyers

The French legal system: vive la différence?

David Pickup carries out a comparative analysis with the French criminal jurisdiction

Rape pilot expanded

Trigger warning: rape

Cabinet reshuffle: Raab appointed as lord chancellor and justice secretary

Robert Buckland QC has left government after seven years

MoJ launches independent review of domestic homicide law

'Leading' barrister, Clare Wade QC, has been appointed to conduct the review

Pet abduction to become criminal offence 

Pet theft soared during national lockdowns and the proposed new offence seeks to recognise the severity of the impact for owners