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Overseas Production Orders – A New Tool to Obtain Foreign Electronic Evidence

Karl Laird25th May 202021st May 2020
Introduction For years, prosecutors and defenders have acted in the confident knowledge that obtaining certain types of important electronic evidence from overseas in time for use at trial has been...
Corporate crime Crime General

The House of Lords’ Report on the Bribery Act 2010: A Glimpse Into the Future of Economic Crime?

Karl Laird28th March 2019
On 14 March 2019, the Select Committee on the Bribery Act 2010 published its Report in which it makes a number of conclusions and recommendations.1 The Committee was given the task...
Crime General

Court of Appeal considers approach to entrapment defence

Karl Laird13th March 20194th April 2019
In Syed [2018] EWCA Crim 2809 the Court of Appeal restated the approach that ought to be taken when a defendant applies to stay proceedings as an abuse of process on...
Crime General International Proceeds of crime

UK “Magnitsky provisions” – time for a change?

Karl Laird14th March 201814th March 2018
Since the events that unfolded in Salisbury last week, there have been calls to introduce into UK law a version of the so-called "Magnitsky Act" that was enacted in the...
Crime General

Gross negligence manslaughter – an offence in flux 

Karl Laird31st January 2018
After a period of relative stability following the seminal judgment of the House of Lords in Adomako [1995] AC 171, gross negligence manslaughter has been considered by the Court of...

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