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The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Crypto and Digital Assets Group has published a report calling for urgent regulation of the cryptocurrency and digital asset industry in the UK following its official inquiry into the sector.

Wilson Leung examines a recent judgment providing much-needed clarity on the process of bringing committal proceedings in Hong Kong

In the first of an occasional back page series, Michael Zander asks how much confidence people have in the jury system

Personal injury lawyers have called for the limitation period for claims from victims of child abuse to be abolished with immediate effect.

Complainants in rape and sexual offences cases could have an automatic right to give evidence in private or via a live link, under an overhaul of the rules.

Stricter safeguards will apply to police requests to access rape victims’ therapy notes or other personal records during the investigation stage, under a government amendment last week to the Victims and Prisoners Bill.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has reported that conviction rates are not used when deciding whether or not to charge a case, and that it will always prosecute where there is sufficient evidence, if it is in the public interest to do so

Who put the civil into proceeds of crime cases? Civil remedies such as account freezing (AFOs) and forfeiture orders have come to dominate what was once an overwhelmingly criminal concern, Hickman & Rose partner Andrew Katzen and associate Olivia Dwan write in this week’s NLJ.

Andrew Katzen & Olivia Dwan analyse what the growing dominance of civil proceedings in proceeds of crime means for practitioners

“The policing of protest has been conducted in a routinely violent way for more than four decades”

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Arc Pensions Law—Richard Meers

Pensions litigation team announces senior associate hire

Burges Salmon—Neil Demuth

Firm appoints new chief financial officer

Anthony Collins—Sue Bearman

Social purpose firm announces director hire plus eight promotions

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AlphaBiolabs donation boosts men’s mental health charity Sean’s Place

AlphaBiolabs has made a £500 donation to Sean’s Place, a men’s mental health charity based in Sefton, as part of its ongoing Giving Back initiative

Tribute to Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC

Human rights lawyers, social justice champion, co-founder of the law firm Bindmans, and NLJ columnist Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC has died at the age of 92 years

NLJ this week: EU law trumps sports arbitration

RFC Seraing v FIFA, in which the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) reaffirmed that awards by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) may be reviewed by EU courts on public-policy grounds, is under examination in this week's NLJ by Dr Estelle Ivanova of Valloni Attorneys at Law, Zurich

NLJ this week: Shareholder secrecy sunk

Writing in NLJ this week, Sophie Ashcroft and Miranda Joseph of Stevens & Bolton dissect the Privy Council’s landmark ruling in Jardine Strategic Ltd v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd (No 2), which abolishes the long-standing 'shareholder rule'

NLJ this week: The expanding remit of national security law

In NLJ this week, Sailesh Mehta and Theo Burges of Red Lion Chambers examine the government’s first-ever 'Afghan leak' super-injunction—used to block reporting of data exposing Afghans who aided UK forces and over 100 British officials. Unlike celebrity privacy cases, this injunction centred on national security. Its use, the authors argue, signals the rise of a vast new body of national security law spanning civil, criminal, and media domains

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Criminal

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Arc Pensions Law—Richard Meers

Burges Salmon—Neil Demuth

Anthony Collins—Sue Bearman