The Court of Appeal has cleared the names of Post Office employees who were wrongly convicted of theft, fraud and other offences based on evidence from a faulty IT system.
42 former Post Office workers are set to appeal financial criminal convictions, due to claims that a faulty computer system was the cause for their wrongful convictions.
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer accused of killing George Floyd, is to undergo trial.
The Supreme Court has overturned the 2020 Court of Appeal decision which would have permitted Shamima Begum (who, at age 15, left the UK to join so-called ISIS) to return to the UK from the Syrian refugee camp where she currently resides.
The United States President, Donald Trump, has pardoned four men convicted of killing fourteen unarmed Iraqi civilians while working as contractors for the US military in 2007. The United Nations has asserted that these pardons “violate US obligations under international law”.
The Law Commission has published a report which recommends to the UK Parliament a number of changes regarding the effectiveness of search warrants and access to digital material. Such changes would give UK law enforcement agencies further powers to access online material during criminal investigations.
Facebook, YouTube and Twitter have agreed to be subject to a new self-regulatory framework for moderation of harmful online content as part of their efforts to curb hate speech and end the advertising boycott against them.
In order to clear a backlog of criminal law cases, the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) has announced plans to have juries hear High Court trials in selected Odeon cinemas. Jurors will remotely observe trials in an environment that is compliant with social distancing regulations.
Airbnb is banning under-25s from booking entire properties in the UK, France and Spain. The crackdown is an effort to prevent house parties, which skirt social distancing rules amid COVID-19.
MPs have been debating the use of polygraph tests on those convicted of terrorism-related offences and released on licence (serving the remainder of their sentence in the community). The amendments to the Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill would introduce mandatory polygraph testing on Very High/High risk Serious Harm terrorist offenders.