Image credit: © West Midlands Police Revised sentencing guidelines for domestic, non-domestic and aggravated burglary offences in England and Wales, which come into effect on 1 July 2022 (for persons sentenced on or after that date), have been published by the Sentencing Council following consultation. The revised guidelines follow the newer stepped format of more…
Image credit: “Facial Recognition” by Tim Dorr is marked with CC BY-SA 2.0. The College of Policing has published a guide to the use of live facial recognition technology. The guide is intended to ensure a consistent approach across forces with a clear legal and ethical framework. The College sets out five aims for the…
Image credit: “Prison cell with bed” by Tim Pearce, Los Gatos is marked with CC BY 2.0. The Justice Secretary, Dominic Raab, has announced a reform package for the parole system. A “Root and Branch” review focussed on the following areas: An evaluation of the parole reforms to date – looking at overall performance, the…
Image credit: “File:Edward Colston – empty pedestal.jpg” by Caitlin Hobbs is marked with CC BY 3.0. The Attorney General has referred questions of law to the Court Appeal, acting in her role as the Guardian of the Public Interest. The questions concern the proper scope of defences to criminal charges that arise from protests and…
Image credit: “The great waste water streams of Phoenix” by kevin dooley is marked with CC BY 2.0. The Environment Agency Chief Executive, Sir James Bevan, has made a speech on waste crime at an event with Let’s Recycle and the Environmental Services Association. The Executive said that he called waste crime the “new narcotics”…
[Image credit: Arms over the entrance to the Crown Court and County Court in St Aldates’, Oxford. Copyright © 2006 Kaihsu Tai. ] The House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts has published a report on reducing the backlog in criminal courts. The committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the accounts…
[Image credit: “In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all. Eldridge Cleaver” by katerha is marked with CC BY 2.0. ] A government press release has the heading “thousands of new prison places to rehabilitate offenders and cut crime.” It seems odd when most…
[Image credit: “Privacy” by g4ll4is is marked with CC BY-SA 2.0 ] In a recent case, the Supreme Court considered the issue of privacy. The Court held that, in general, a person under criminal investigation has, prior to being charged, a reasonable expectation of privacy in respect of information relating to that investigation. BackgroundZXC (as…
[Image: “mobile phone mast” by osde8info is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 ] New regulations come into force on 25th March 2022, called the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2022. These regulations amend the definition of hand-held devices; these are the definitions that will be used to govern the use of mobile…
[Image: “Google Self-Driving Car” by *rboed* is licensed under CC BY 2.0 ] A joint report from the Law Commission of England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission has been published. The topic is automated vehicles and makes recommendations for the safe and responsible introduction of self-driving vehicles. The Law Commission is the statutory…
