8/21/2025 1:16:58 PM No Backdoor, No Break-In: Why the UK backed down in privacy row against Apple By Danielle Atkinson The US director of national intelligence says the UK has withdrawn its request to access all Apple users' data when required. The UK...
8/20/2025 9:59:06 AM Corporate Crackdown: New Prosecution Guidance Ahead of "Failure to Prevent Fraud" Offence By Avary Patutama Matthew Garbutt David Pack The UK's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and Serious Fraud Office (SFO) updated guidance on corporate prosecutions serves as a timely...
7/16/2025 4:30:05 PM Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation: Can the National Audit Drive Real Change? By Nikki Bowker Baroness Casey's National Audit on Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (the Audit) was commissioned by the Government in...
7/9/2025 8:49:32 AM Whose property is it anyway? High Court refuses to make a vesting order where company dissolved By Will O'Brien Rosemary Pijper When an English company is dissolved whilst still owning assets, those assets (normally a property) vest in the Crown. Where a freehold...
7/7/2025 10:17:39 AM Safe as houses? Not anymore – the legal reality of modern property fraud By Nikki Bowker Fraudsters view properties as attractive assets to target and are increasingly exploiting system weaknesses and technological...
7/3/2025 8:58:11 AM Health and Safety Update: Work-Related Fatalities Statistics Published By Yaasica Hamilton-Haye The Health and Safety Executive has published annual statistics in relation to work-related fatal injuries, including asbestos-related...
6/30/2025 10:42:54 AM Fraud’s new frontline: Why civil litigators are thinking criminal By Michael Lewis The traditional divide between civil and criminal enforcement is blurring, particularly in complex fraud cases. With public agencies...
6/27/2025 1:24:45 PM Beyond the Fine Print: Are Penalty Clauses Enforceable? By Prateek Sharma Michael Lewis Will O'Brien English law recognises the autonomy of contracting parties, subject to some exceptions in terms of consumer contracts and tenancy...
6/27/2025 10:39:35 AM Special Administration Regimes: Pressure Builds as Intervention Risk Deepens for Thames Water By Rosemary Pijper When a company does not have enough assets to meet its debts, or is unable to pay its debts when they fall due, its directors may decide...
6/26/2025 4:20:14 PM Who’s policing the platform? Platform liability and the rising tide of online fraud By Michael Lewis Online fraud is now the UK’s most common crime. And while victims once bore the brunt alone, attention is turning sharply toward the...
6/25/2025 3:15:42 PM Too Hot to Handle? Courtroom Heatwave Fails to Sway High Court Appeal By Danielle Atkinson Whilst we bask through a stretch of extreme hot weather in Britain, the following case seems rather fitting. A non-practising barrister...
6/25/2025 12:43:01 PM The Expanding Reach of Environmental Criminal Law By Michael Lewis Prateek Sharma Think breaching a Tree Preservation Order is just a planning issue? Think again. Environmental offences are no longer a side note in...