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WhatsApp faces revamped EU GDPR penalty after national enforcers contest fine range

WhatsApp faces revamped EU GDPR penalty after national enforcers contest fine range

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Amazon fined record €746m for EU GDPR privacy breach

Amazon fined record €746m for EU GDPR privacy breach

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FCA probes Monzo bank over potential AML breaches

FCA probes Monzo bank over potential AML breaches

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Witness in ENRC claim calls into question SFO’s disclosure exercise in 2016 privilege case

Witness in ENRC claim calls into question SFO’s disclosure exercise in 2016 privilege case

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ECHR, art 5(4)—rights and duties

ECHR, art 5(4)—rights and duties

ECHR, art 5(4)—rights and dutiesThe scope of article 5(4) Article 5(4) of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) provides that: 'Everyone who...

Robbery

Robbery

RobberyRobberyRobbery is a theft offence, involving dishonesty but elevated also by the intention to use force.Robbery can only be tried in the Crown...

Admissibility of hearsay evidence in criminal proceedings

Admissibility of hearsay evidence in criminal proceedings

Admissibility of hearsay evidence in criminal proceedingsHow to identify hearsayThe definition of hearsay is contained in the Criminal Justice Act...

Allocation and sending—either-way offences not sent forthwith to the Crown Court for trial

Allocation and sending—either-way offences not sent forthwith to the Crown Court for trial

Allocation and sending—either-way offences not sent forthwith to the Crown Court for trialProcedure for either-way offences not sent forthwith to the...

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Sentencing guidelines for sexual offences

Sentencing guidelines for sexual offencesThe Sentencing Council (SC) produces guidance on sentencing for courts in England and Wales in the form of...
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19th May
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Asset stripping

Asset strippingWhat is asset stripping?Asset stripping involves taking company funds or assets while leaving behind the debts. Sometimes directors...
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Produced in partnership with Micheal Murphy and Amelia Clegg of 23 Essex Street Chambers 19th May
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Criminal insider dealing (encouraging offence)—a quick guide

Criminal insider dealing (encouraging offence)—a quick guideThis Practice Note is concerned with one of the three criminal offences created under...
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19th May
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Criminal act or omission

Criminal act or omissionOmissionA defendant must be shown to have had the relevant mental state of mind or intention at the time that the act...
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19th May
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The FCA and financial crime

The FCA and financial crimeThe Financial Services Act 2012 (FSA 2012) significantly altered the regulatory landscape for financial services in the UK...
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19th May
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Mandatory life sentences

Mandatory life sentencesThis Practice Note reflects the procedural code for sentencing offenders in England and Wales (Sentencing Code) that applies...
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19th May
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Sexual risk orders

Sexual risk ordersSTOP PRESS: All offenders convicted on or after 1 December 2020 must be sentenced under the provisions of the Sentencing Code,...
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Produced in partnership with Monica Stevenson of 25 Bedford Row 19th May
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Failing to stop or report an accident

Failing to stop or report an accidentDrivers are under a duty to stop at the scene of an accident, provide personal details and report an accident....
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Produced in partnership with Red Lion Chambers 19th May
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Possession of indecent photographs of a child and prohibited images of children

Possession of indecent photographs of a child and prohibited images of childrenOffence of possession of an indecent photograph of a childIt is an...
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Produced in partnership with Doughty Street Chambers 19th May
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Vicarious liability

Vicarious liabilityWhat is vicarious liability?The general principle in criminal law is liability is personal not vicarious. This means that one...
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19th May
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The indictment

The indictmentThe rules relating to the form of indictments and the procedure for their creation and adoption are contained in the following: •the...
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19th May
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Indecent images of children

Indecent images of childrenThe criminal offencesThe Protection of Children Act 1978 (PCA 1978), the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (CJA 1988) and the...
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19th May
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Applying for the return of seized cash

Applying for the return of seized cashApplication by the person from whom the cash was seizedWhen cash has been seized, an application can be made by...
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19th May
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Football banning orders

Football banning ordersSTOP PRESS: All offenders convicted on or after 1 December 2020 must be sentenced under the provisions of the Sentencing Code,...
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19th May
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Conducting an appeal in the Court of Appeal Criminal Division (CACD)

Conducting an appeal in the Court of Appeal Criminal Division (CACD)Coronavirus (COVID-19): This Practice Note contains guidance impacted by the...
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19th May
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Duress and necessity

Duress and necessityDuress by threatsDuress by threats provides a complete defence to a charge of any offence other than murder, attempted murder and...
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19th May

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Copyright criminal offences

Copyright criminal offencesFor offences that have more of a public policy angle such as those involving counterfeit goods and piracy, it is possible...
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31st Jul
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Anti-counterfeiting in the UK

Anti-counterfeiting in the UKThis Practice Note summarises the main types of legal action that can be taken against the UK trade in counterfeit goods,...
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Produced in partnership with Taylor Wessing LLP 31st Jul
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Protecting intellectual property through private prosecutions

Protecting intellectual property through private prosecutionsThis Practice Note summarises the main legal and practical issues that rights holders and...
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Produced in partnership with Kyle Phillips and James Seadon of Fieldfisher LLP 31st Jul
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Trade mark offences

Trade mark offencesFor certain types of trade mark infringement cases (such as wilful infringement for the purpose of manufacturing counterfeit...
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31st Jul
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Counterfeiting notes and coins

Counterfeiting notes and coinsMaking a counterfeit note or coinSection 14 of the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 (FCA 1981), makes an offence for...
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30th Jul
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Forgery

ForgeryOffence of making a false instrumentA person is guilty of forgery under section 1 of the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 (FCA 1981) if he...
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30th Jul
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Copyright theft and video piracy

Copyright theft and video piracyCopyright theftTheft of copyright is criminalised by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA 1988), the...
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30th Jul
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Dishonesty in the criminal law

Dishonesty in the criminal lawDishonesty is a state of mind, which is relevant for the purposes of some criminal offences. Dishonesty provides the...
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30th Jul

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Easements and perpetuities

Easements and perpetuities

Drafting—2009 ActThe Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 2009 effectively disapplies the rule against perpetuities from future easements granted on or after 6 April 2010, so a draftsman now need not be concerned to specify a perpetuity period. Any restrictions on the exercise of the easement

Sale of treasury shares

Sale of treasury shares

Sale of treasury sharesA limited company may hold, or deal with, shares in itself, if certain conditions set out in the Companies Act 2006 (CA 2006) are met. Those shares are held in treasury and referred to as the company's treasury shares.The treasury shares regime is set out in CA 2006, ss

Nuisance and the rule in Rylands v Fletcher—common law liability for pollution

Nuisance and the rule in Rylands v Fletcher—common law liability for pollution

Private nuisancePrivate nuisance is an unlawful interference with a person's use or enjoyment of land or some right over or in connection with it. Interference must be unreasonable, and may be caused, eg by water, smoke, smell, fumes, gas, noise, heat or vibrations. Where the defendant has not

Qualified one-way costs shifting (QOCS)

Qualified one-way costs shifting (QOCS)

Qualified one-way costs shifting (QOCS)What is QOCS?Qualified one-way costs shifting (QOCS) was introduced on 1 April 2013 as part of the Jackson costs reforms following the removal of a claimant’s right to recover additional liabilities from the defendant, ie success fees and after the event (ATE)