‘A former vicar has been jailed after admitting causing grievous bodily harm (GBH) by carrying out an extreme body modification with scissors.’
BBC News, 1st September 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Six out of 10 lawyers are using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) for work purposes and most of the rest plan to use it, new research has found.’
Legal Futures, 2nd September 2025
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘New changes to prosecution guidance in England and Wales will put further emphasis on companies to ensure they carry out due diligence to avoid liability for corporate crime, an expert has warned.’
OUT-LAW.com, 1st September 2025
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘A man who kicked a police officer while protesting outside a hotel housing asylum seekers has been given a suspended jail sentence.’
BBC News, 1st September 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The probation watchdog chief for England and Wales has urged Sir Keir Starmer to finally put an end to the scandal of indefinite jail terms, warning prisoners are “trapped in the system”.’
The Independent, 31st August 2025
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Some 24 lawyers including leading children law and Court of Protection specialists have been appointed Deputy High Court judges, for a single fixed six-year term.’
Local Government Lawyer, 1st September 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The independent anti-slavery commissioner has launched an investigation into so-called pimping websites amid concern at the level of exploitation of trafficked and vulnerable women on those platforms.’
The Guardian, 30th August 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A drug dealer has been found guilty of murdering a former prison officer in an “act of revenge” four years after he seized a mobile phone from his jail cell.’
BBC News, 29th August 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Yvette Cooper could face legal action over the decision to keep an asylum seeker with schizophrenia in prison.’
The Guardian, 31st August 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘On 18 August 2025, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) published their Joint SFO-CPS Corporate Prosecution Guidance, intended for prosecutors who will make decisions about whether or not to prosecute a corporation.’
Kingsley Napley Criminal Law Blog, 29th August 2025
Source: www.kingsleynapley.co.uk
‘In a recent post, we covered the High Court’s headline-making decision in Epping Forest District Council v Somani Hotels Limited [2025] EWHC 2183 (KB) to grant an injunction preventing the Bell Hotel in Epping from being used to house Asylum Seekers.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 29th August 2025
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
“A prolific, calculated sex offender” has admitted drugging and raping a woman four times, as well as sexual offences against five other women.
BBC News, 29th August 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Companies could be prosecuted and face unlimited fines if they fail to prevent fraud that their firm profits from under a corporate offence coming into force on Monday.’
The Guardian, 1st September 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
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