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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...
Production orders under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002Production ordersThe purpose of a production order is to obtain material relating to a known person or business, such as bank statements and correspondence. The order requires the person specified to either hand over the material contained in the
Seizure and forfeiture of monies held in bank accounts under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002Background—the creation of the powersChapter 3B, Part 5 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA 2002), entitled the ‘Forfeiture of money held in bank and building society accounts’, provides the procedure for
Variation or discharge of a restraint orderApplication to discharge a restraint orderAny person affected by a restraint order, as well as the person who applied for it, may apply for its discharge. This includes defendants, associated and third parties, and receivers. The suspect or defendant may,
Restraint ordersWhat is a restraint order?A restraint order is a preventive measure imposed in support of any confiscation order that may be or has been made. It is an instrument of statute, provided for in section 40 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA 2002).POCA 2002, s 40 (in providing for
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