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Parliamentarians at Westminster are forming a new cross-party group to raise issues around the illicit trade up the political agenda. The All Party Parliamentary Group which will be made up of Peers and MPs from across the political spectrum will look at some of the key issues and drivers behind illicit trade across a range […]
The European Commission has recently given a fresh push to speed up the implementation of EU-wide rules for the use of drones in the European Union. More than 1200 safety occurrences - including near-misses between drones and aircrafts - were reported in Europe in 2016, which underlines the pressing need for a modern and flexible […]
Big Data, it seems, is everywhere. The capacity and speed delivered by new technology systems allows incomprehensibly large sets of data to be analysed by computers, revealing patterns, trends, and associations that can then be used to analyse and predict with greater certainty. This is very useful in the practice of law which is characterised […]
A direct action environmentalist group called Deep Green resistance is advocating for the Colorado river to be officially recognised as a person. The organisation is asking, by motion of a lawsuit last week, for the US District Court for the District of Colorado to grant personhood status to the 1,450-mile-long water flow. If such status […]
Here Richard Grint, financial services expert at PA Consulting Group warns firms to start acting now to implement a framework that will monitor and mitigate risks of the new tax evasion fines to be implemented by HMRC this month. Firms need to start acting now to implement a framework that will monitor and mitigate risks. […]
This week, a leading Russian expert on countering terrorism, Joseph Linder said that following the attack on London Bridge, Britain should extradite thousands of people. With the upcoming general election, this is a sensitive matter to approach the public with. According to The Sun, he said: “The political leadership of England must take radical measures. […]
The real extent of the legal sector’s problem with data breaches has been revealed by a survey which suggests many in the industry delay reporting data breaches, or even ignore them entirely. Data breaches have hit the news already in 2017 with high profile cases such as mobile phone company Three – where an employee’s […]
Regularly writing on news surrounding the Serious Fraud Office, here Dominic Carman analyses the success of David Green QC's tenure at the SFO, pointing towards Green’s key moves, role and the poisoned chalice that is the job of being SFO Director. In one of his more astute observations, Enoch Powell suggested that all political careers […]
Janine Hutson, Associate Solicitor in the divorce and family law team at Harrison Drury, here explores the latest trends in divorce law and what these could mean for the legal profession. Calls for a no-fault divorce Current English and Welsh law states you must prove that the grounds for divorce fit into one of five […]
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