16th Apr 2024Blog
Lurking within the Companies Act 2006 are numerous strict liability offences, which are coupled with ‘reverse burden’ statutory defences (ie. those which require the defendant (usually a company director) to prove the defence in question). In the event of prosecution under these provisions, there are two interesting questions for defence practitioners to consider, namely (a) […]
11th Dec 2023Blog
Disputes and investigations giving rise to proceedings in both the criminal and civil jurisdictions are increasingly common. The principles surrounding the disclosure and use in one domestic jurisdiction of material received in another are well-established, albeit their application may be complex and highly fact-specific. The implied undertaking by the recipient of evidence disclosed in civil […]
28th Nov 2023Blog
Introduction The Online Safety Bill received Royal Assent on 26 October 2023, becoming the Online Safety Act (“the Act”). Its aim is to deliver on the government’s commitment to “make the UK the safest place to be online”, by imposing statutory duties on social media companies and search engines[1] (“service providers”) to ensure that they […]
17th Nov 2023Blog
It is probably right to say that not many cases that started life in the Northern Derbyshire Magistrates’ Court have been subject to the scrutiny of the finest legal minds in the country. But a story with its origins in a warehouse in Scotland and a courthouse in the midlands reached its end on 1 […]
13th Nov 2023Blog
The RWC Final at the Stade de France on 28 October was perhaps not the final many rugby fans wanted. Depending, perhaps a little on who you were supporting, it was marred by the yellow and subsequent red card for New Zealand captain Sam Cane, leaving the All Blacks playing for the rest of what […]
