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The impact of Coronavirus, part 3: the emergency criminal offences

Vincent Scully6th April 20206th April 2020

The current pandemic has led to a flood of emergency legislation. This post deals with The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020 (SI 2020 No. 350) made under the...

Corporate crime Proceeds of crime Regulatory

UK Anti-Corruption Strategy – one year on

Simon Ray13th February 2019

What action has been taken since the launch of the UK anti-corruption strategy in 2017? Simon Ray discusses the ‘year one update’ reviewing progress so far and considers what developments...

General Public and civil law Regulatory

No smoke without fire: revisiting the Crown exemption rule

Alex du Sautoy17th January 201818th September 2019

When is the Crown bound by a statute that does not expressly refer to it? This was the question that arose for consideration by the Supreme Court in R (on...

Corporate crime Crime Extradition General Regulatory

Righting another ‘wrong turn’? Dishonesty in Ivey v Genting: Part II

Katherine Hardcastle10th December 201711th December 2017

In this second of two posts (the first can be found here), the criticism of the Ghosh test is considered, together with a brief outline of the concept of dishonesty...

Corporate crime Crime Extradition General Regulatory

Righting another ‘wrong turn’? Dishonesty in Ivey v Genting: Part I

Katherine Hardcastle7th December 2017

This blog has previously featured a summary of the landmark judgment in Ivey v Genting Casinos (UK) Ltd [2017] UKSC 67 and a post examining the dishonesty test now to be applied in criminal...

Corporate crime Crime Extradition General Regulatory