Law and the Justice System

The Serious Fraud Office has reached a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) with Airline Services Limited (ASL), subject to final approval by the court. This approval will be sought from Mrs Justice May at a public hearing at Southwark Crown Court, sitting at the Royal Courts of Justice, on 30 October 2020.

The backlog of outstanding employment tribunal claims could pass 500,000 by spring if it continues to increase at the current rate, Citizens Advice has warned as it urged the government to provide more funding.

The UK’s company registrar, Companies House, has said in its strategic plan that it wants to become a digital organisation focused on the use of data to inspire confidence and combat economic crime.

You might think publishing an open data strategy should currently be well down the list of HM Courts & Tribunals Service priorities. Not so, says Dr Natalie Byrom, research director of the Legal Education Foundation:

A Leeds businessman with links to serious criminals has lost his vast property empire worth nearly £10m after a National Crime Agency investigation.

Digital devices like smart doorbells, dashcam footage, car GPS systems and even Amazon Alexas are providing increasingly more evidence in criminal trials, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) said in a speech today.

It is now three years since the enactment of the Criminal Finances Act 2017 and the “failure to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion” offence (the FTP Offence).

A senior judge has criticised the police for an unwillingness to co-operate over the malicious prosecution of the former administrators of Rangers in connection with the collapsed club fraud case.

Nicola Sharp of Rahman Ravelli outlines the offences created by Part 3 of the Criminal Finances Act, their relevance in this COVID-19 era and the appropriate corporate response.

A reformed confiscation regime will aim to improve the process by which confiscation orders are made; ensure fairness of the confiscation regime; and optimise the enforcement of confiscation orders so they are more effective at depriving a defendant of their benefit from criminal conduct.