Criminal

Sir Brian Leveson has warned MPs the criminal court system ‘cannot survive as it presently is’

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

The Afghan leak super-injunction highlights the growing body of national security law spanning ever-increasing areas of practice, write Sailesh Mehta & Theo Burges

The UK’s anti-money laundering supervisory regime is facing significant change: Mark Evans, president of the Law Society, sets out what this means for its members

Criminal silk Richard Wright KC will lead an urgent independent review of stalking laws, the Home Office has announced

Barristers Ben Keith of 5 St Andrew’s Hill and Rhys Davies of Temple Garden Chambers use the arrest of Simon Leviev—the so-called Tinder Swindler—to explore the realities of Interpol red notices, in this week's NLJ

The case of the Tinder Swindler shows the power of Interpol red notices—but what happens when they’re used improperly? Ben Keith & Rhys Davies report

The first Post Office Capture conviction—the accounting software used before the faulty Horizon system—has been referred for appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC)

Government plans for offender ‘restriction zones’ risk creating ‘digital cages’ that blur punishment with surveillance, warns Henrietta Ronson, partner at Corker Binning, in this week's issue of NLJ

Jon Robins reports on a petition to posthumously exonerate Christine Keeler