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The National Crime Agency (NCA), Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), HMRC, Home Office and HM Treasury have published nine 2026 economic crime system...
The Courts and Tribunals Judiciary (CTJ) has published the Magistrates’ courts National Listing Guidance, providing a single consistent strategic...
The National Crime Agency (NCA) has announced that three individuals have been sentenced following its investigation into fraud involving contracts to...
Dispute Resolution analysis: the High Court held that Chinese law governed the underlying proprietary rights asserted by victims of a Chinese...
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...
Commencing criminal proceedings—applying for the issue of a summonsAll criminal cases begin in the magistrates' court however serious the offence. There are a number of ways of commencing criminal proceedings in England and Wales:•the defendant may be arrested and charged by the police and required
Good character directions in criminal proceedingsEvidence of a defendant's good character in criminal proceedings is admissible and can go to either propensity or credibility or both:•propensity—the defendant is unlikely to have committed the offence with which they are accused•credibility—the
Priority between loss reliefs in loss making companiesWhy does it matter?A company that is a member of a group and has incurred any of the types of losses available for surrender by way of group relief may, without any further rules, have more than one way in which to use the loss. There are a
If a rentcharge is shown as being informally exonerated on title information, does this apply to the current registered owner? Or does the informal exoneration only apply to the parties to the document which informally exonerated the rentcharge?This Q&A considers the situation where, at some point
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