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The disclosure guidelines have been changed to stop ‘invasive and disproportionate’ requests for victims’ private information during criminal investigations

Writing in this week’s NLJ, David Walbank QC looks at ‘reasonable expectation of privacy’, an issue ‘of perennial concern to those who find themselves under criminal investigation but wish to avoid a media circus in the full glare of publicity’

This month, David Walbank QC focuses on a successful attempt to avoid a media scrum & an ongoing campaign to avoid extradition

Criminal law solicitors joined their colleagues at the Bar this week by taking action in protest at low legal aid fees

The Sentencing Council has published revised guidelines for domestic, non-domestic and aggravated burglary offences, including middle categories for culpability and harm factors

Legal aid has been run into the ground. Is it time for public defenders to step in, asks Roger Smith

The four HM Chief Inspectors of police, Criminal Prosecution Service, probation and prison services have issued a devastating warning on the ‘knock-on effect’ of the courts backlog

Is the time ripe for a public defender system? Writing in this week’s NLJ, solicitor Roger Smith mulls the pros and cons of such a system, noting the underfunding of criminal legal aid, the ongoing ‘no returns’ action of the Criminal Bar and the current political climate

The Sentencing Council has revised its guidelines on sentencing offenders convicted of arranging or facilitating sexual offences against a child, and issued a new guideline on sexual communication with a child

Michael Zander on the final stages

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DWF—Jenny Leonard

Former Metropolitan Police director joins police, care and justice team

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Corporate real estate and funds expertise expands with partner hire

Hill Dickinson—Helen Foley, Charlotte Fallon & Gary Parnell

Firm grows London business services team with trio of partner hires

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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

DWF—Jenny Leonard

Charles Russell Speechlys—Ed Morgan

Hill Dickinson—Helen Foley, Charlotte Fallon & Gary Parnell