Blog — 12 November 2018

What are the rules on the filtering of criminal records?

The ‘filtering’ rules were introduced by the Government in 2013 following a successful legal challenge brought by a group of people whose criminal record certificates included very old and minor…

Blog — 12 November 2018

Everything you need to know about police cautions

Cautions (technically, “simple cautions”) are used by police to deal with low-level criminal offending, usually by first-time offenders. The caution is an ‘out of court disposal’. Use of a caution…

Blog — 09 November 2018

Does the absence of fairly priced part-time season tickets contribute to the gender pay gap?

Tomorrow is Equal Pay Day; the day dedicated to raising awareness of the gender pay gap. The date symbolizes how far into the year women must work to earn what…

Blog — 01 November 2018

Medical cannabis can now be prescribed, but who can obtain it?

Today was supposed to be a landmark day for medicinal cannabis campaigners as the Misuse of Drugs (Amendments) (Cannabis and Licence Fees) (England, Wales and Scotland) Regulations 2018 come into…

Blog — 31 October 2018

The effect of non-disclosure of evidence relating to communications and the appointment of special counsel (R v Knaggs and others) (Originally published on Lexis PSL)

What are the practical implications of this case? (i.e. how the case may influence how practitioners advise their clients) This was a complicated case which involved a number of legal…