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AGENCY SCRAPPED

18 January 2007
Issue: 7256 / Categories: Legal News
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in brief

The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA)—set up in 2003 by the government with the aim of toppling criminal enterprises through the clawing back of criminal assets—is to be shut down after notching up huge losses. In a written ministerial statement last week, the Home Office announced that the agency will be swallowed up by the Serious Organised Crime Agency. Prosecutors will also be given the power to launch civil recovery action under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. Tony Blair promised the ARA would target hardened criminals and double the money seized by police and HM Revenue & Customs, but it has struggled to break even.

Issue: 7256 / Categories: Legal News
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Slater Heelis—Chester office

Slater Heelis—Chester office

North West presence strengthened with Chester office launch

Cooke, Young & Keidan—Elizabeth Meade

Cooke, Young & Keidan—Elizabeth Meade

Firm grows commercial disputes expertise with partner promotion

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

Blake Morgan managing partner appointed chair of CBI South-East Council

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The House of Lords has set up a select committee to examine assisted dying, which will delay the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
The proposed £11bn redress scheme following the Supreme Court’s motor finance rulings is analysed in this week’s NLJ by Fred Philpott of Gough Square Chambers
In this week's issue, Stephen Gold, NLJ columnist and former district judge, surveys another eclectic fortnight in procedure. With humour and humanity, he reminds readers that beneath the procedural dust, the law still changes lives
Generative AI isn’t the villain of the courtroom—it’s the misunderstanding of it that’s dangerous, argues Dr Alan Ma of Birmingham City University and the Birmingham Law Society in this week's NLJ
James Naylor of Naylor Solicitors dissects the government’s plan to outlaw upward-only rent review (UORR) clauses in new commercial leases under Schedule 31 of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, in this week's NLJ. The reform, he explains, marks a seismic shift in landlord-tenant power dynamics: rents will no longer rise inexorably, and tenants gain statutory caps and procedural rights
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