National security

The High Court has lifted a two-year super-injunction concealing the leak of a Ministry of Defence (MoD) list of more than 18,000 Afghan nationals who assisted British forces against the Taliban

Aneurin Brewer sets out a practical guide to defending the pilots of small boats following the Nationality and Borders Act 2022

Writing in NLJ this week, Aneurin Brewer of Red Lion Chambers offers a practical defence guide for small boat pilots charged under the Immigration Act 1971, as amended by the Nationality and Borders Act 2022

Daniel Khalife’s escape from HM Wandsworth strapped by a pair of trousers beneath the chassis of a delivery van grabbed public attention back in 2023. In this week’s NLJ, Sailesh Mehta and Theo Burges, Red Lion Chambers, examine how spies have previously been sentenced in the UK, the core principles involved, the increasingly close link between terrorism and espionage offences, and why they expect the number of prosecutions in this area to grow

Sailesh Mehta & Theo Burges consider the sentencing of Daniel Khalife & the growing intersection between terrorism & espionage offences

The Home Office will regain access to Europol DNA and criminal records, while export checks will be simplified for food, fish and farm products, under the UK-EU deal

The UK government has the power to review and potentially stop any business transactions that could threaten national security, courtesy of legislation that came into effect at the start of 2022. In this week’s NLJ, Ludovica Pizzetti, counsel, Arnold & Porter, looks at the operation to date of this legislation, the UK National Investment and Security Act 2021 (NSIA 2021).

Ludovica Pizzetti examines the latest trends in the UK’s National Investment & Security Act regime

The security service MI5 has apologised in court, having admitted to misleading judges in a series of cases in the High Court and in the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) about the conduct of one of its agents.

Foreign states cannot invoke immunity for spy software allegedly used against dissidents in the UK, the Court of Appeal has found