Law and the Justice System

A Shropshire woman who stole more than £600,000 from her family's engineering firm can only repay £133,000.

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/crime/2019/03/06/couple-will-pay-just-a-slice-of-600k-stolen-from-family-firm/

The president of the Supreme Court has said judges must have the “moral courage” to stand up to their own prejudices, such as favouring accident victims or insurers, workers or employers.

https://www.litigationfutures.com/news/hale-judges-must-fight-claimant-or-defendant-sympathies

There is “room for review” of the legal regulation regime, made more urgent by the developments in technology, Lord Keen, the Ministry of Justice’s spokesman in the House of Lords, said yesterday.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/keen-room-to-review-legal-regulation-regime

The court modernisation programme has realised £158m in “benefits” to date, more than was anticipated, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has revealed.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/court-modernisation-delivers-158m-in-savings-so-far

Tesco admitted wrongdoing over its accounting scandal in order to obtain a deferred prosecution agreement and avoid a conviction. But with everyone charged over the scandal having been cleared, Aziz Rahman examines whether the deferred prosecution agreement process needs revising.

https://www.lexology.com/library/document.ashx?g=1b1af970-c704-42a3-9b30-013e1159918a

The National Crime Agency (NCA) announced yesterday that it has used its new powers of account freezing orders (AFOs) to make an individual forfeit £466,321.72 from three bank accounts.

https://blog.macfarlanes.com/post/102fen1/show-me-the-money-the-nca-uses-its-new-account-freezing-orders-to-seize-signific

A London student who paid £390,000 up front in rent for a Knightsbridge apartment must hand over nearly half a million pounds, following an investigation by the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA).

http://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/1565-son-of-moldova-s-ex-pm-renting-1000-per-day-knightsbridge-apartment-forced-to-hand-over-nearly-half-a-million-pounds

A convicted waste criminal has been ordered to pay £1.3 million for defrauding waste electronic and electrical equipment (WEEE) recycling schemes out of millions of pounds in a Proceeds of Crime hearing at Leeds Crown Court yesterday (7 February).

https://resource.co/article/waste-criminal-ordered-pay-13m-weee-recycling-fraud-13082#.XF9RG14RCsg.twitter

Part 2 of LASPO has “on balance” succeeded in the government’s aims of reducing the cost of litigation, discouraging unmeritorious cases and promoting access to justice at proportionate cost, the Ministry of Justice declared today.

https://www.litigationfutures.com/news/moj-part-2-laspo-reforms-have-achieved-their-goal

Speaking in the aftermath of the collapsed Tesco trial, lawyers say the case could provide support for changing corporate criminal liability laws and consider the way DPAs are implemented in the UK.

https://globalinvestigationsreview.com/article/1179682/tesco-fraud-case-%E2%80%9Ccould-support%E2%80%9D-argument-for-broadening-failure-to-prevent-offence#.XF1TQJ4gvcg.twitter