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Articles

12 Jan 2016

ICO repeats call for stronger sentences for data thieves

Enterprise Rent-A-Car employee fined £1,000 for theft of 28,000 customers' data

12 Jan 2016

The mission creep of tax evasion

HMRC's proposed legislation will mean heavier financial and criminal penalties for offshore tax evasion, but beware, says Andrew Watters – this is not evasion as we know it

12 Jan 2016

Texas-style justice 'remains a pipe dream in the UK

A recent Panorama episode, 'Tough Justice in Britain: Texas Style' , gave a fascinating insight into Texas's criminal justice revolution, where the traditional 'hard on crime, hard on sentencing' view is a thing of the past.

7 Jan 2016

Change of plan

A US-owned outsourcing company has dropped plans to sue the Ministry of Justice after the Lord Chancellor reversed yet another of his predecessor's policies.

7 Jan 2016

New policies give international arbitration much needed makeover

ICC Court aims to instil greater confidence in tribunal process

21 Dec 2015

Cash in the (police) attic

Ben Henriques considers the case law on the limits of the police powers of seizure and deprivation in criminal cases

21 Dec 2015

Santa Claus is comin' to town

Richard Easton considers the circumstances in which the law recognises Santa as being 'real', and discusses the exploits of a criminal Father Christmas

17 Dec 2015

CPS miss target as anti-drone protesters avoid prosecution

Second charge in a year fails as companies try to stop peaceful protests