Criminal

Not guilty by reason of insanity is one of the oldest principles of criminal law. In the 2022 case of R v Keal, the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) revisited the M’Naghten rules, which stem from 1843

Telecommunications regulator Ofcom is to be given powers to fine tech companies up to £18m or 10% of global annual turnover, whichever is higher, if they fail to take action to prevent child sexual abuse online

In the first of a two-part series, Cris McCurley examines key changes to the treatment of domestic abuse victims & their children within the family justice system

Criminal courts have ground to a halt for the second week running as criminal barristers continued their strike

Profoundly deaf people who need a BSL interpreter can now sit on juries―part of a clutch of reforms in force from last week, under the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act

The Law Society has published guides on the ‘Impacts of economic instability on money laundering risk’ and ‘Remote working, client interaction and associated use of AML technology’

The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee has published the second report of session 2022-23, entitled ‘The cost of complacency: illicit finance and the war in Ukraine’. The report welcomes the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 (EC(TE)A 2022), but concludes that the measures do not go far or fast enough and do little to address the fundamental mismatch between the resources of law enforcement agencies and their target

Hundreds of fully robed barristers gathered outside the Old Bailey with placards this week, as the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) strike action began

More money could be returned to victims of crime, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Max Hill QC has told Peers

Does the ever-expanding scope of domestic abuse law risk creating confusion & inconsistency in prosecution? Danielle Reece-Greenhalgh investigates