The possibility of eavesdropping virtual assistants being used as witnesses in trials raise important questions concerning privacy and consent.
The Criminal Bar has recently warned of the ever-growing phenomenon of “hot courting”, highlighting the negative effect that it has on our justice system and those involved in it.
The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) has ordered Ryan Beckwith, a (now former) senior partner at Magic Circle firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, to pay £235,000 after an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct.
Anthony Levandowski (a former engineer at Google) has been charged with 33 counts of attempted theft of trade secrets.
Since 2014, Holbeck in Leeds has permitted sex workers to operate without fear of prosecution. But does this controversial, tolerant approach represent something that we could see more widely someday?
The launch of centralised hubs to dispense justice to defendants charged with “victimless offences” is proving successful. According to the government, hubs in Birmingham and Stoke-on-Trent are dealing with a large volume of cases more quickly under the Single Justice Procedure, instituted in 2015.
The Home Office has rejected new advice published in a report by the Joint Committee on Human Rights that proposes a 28-day limit on immigration detention to prevent the current system from being “slow, unfair and expensive”.
With the number of large-scale and successful cyber attacks in the finance sector increasing rapidly in recent years, stringent cybersecurity services are in high demand.
The Swiss Federal Court has recently upheld the decision that an amateur footballer should serve 40 hours of community service for a reckless slide tackle that broke the ankle of the player on the receiving end.
Airbus will shut down one of its subsidiaries following a seven-year bribery investigation by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO).