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The Home Office has announced plans requiring technology companies, including Apple and Google, to implement device-level nudity detection and...
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has announced a range of artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives intended to improve efficiency across the justice...
The City of London Police’s Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department (IFED) has secured jail sentences totalling more than nine years for two men who...
The FCA has announced that it has secured a confiscation order against a Ponzi scheme fraudster, Daniel Pugh, who is serving a seven and a half year...
Common assault and batteryThe offences of common assault and batteryTechnically, the offences of assault and battery are separate summary offences. An...
AffrayAffray is an offence created by the Public Order Act 1986 (POA 1986). It can be tried in either the magistrates’ court or the Crown Court. The...
Self defenceSelf defenceSelf defence is an absolute defence based on the evidence which can apply in crimes committed by force. Section 76 of the...
Assault occasioning actual bodily harmThe offence of actual bodily harmThe offence of assault occasioning actual bodily harm (ABH) can be tried in...
Intimate searchesAuthorising and ordering intimate searchesAn intimate search is the physical examination of any of the suspect’s body orifices other than the mouth. This is a physical intrusion, not simply a visual examination. Only a suspect who is under arrest and in police detention can be
Intimate samplesIntimate samples from a detained suspectAn intimate sample is:•a sample of blood, semen or any other tissue fluid, urine or pubic hair•a dental impression, or•a swab taken from any part of the genitals (including pubic hair) or from a person’s body orifice other than the mouthThe
Preparing a PACE 1984 s 78 application for breach of Code D—checklistFor information on applications to exclude evidence under section 78 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE 1984), see Practice Note: Exclusion of unfair evidence in criminal proceedings.For detailed guidance on
Applications for the return of property seized during criminal investigationsAny informal request or formal application for the return of property seized by an investigating authority during a criminal investigation will depend on the authority under which the property was seized and whether the
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