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CPS fights back against claims of 'inadequate' communication to victims

Prosecution service accused of lacking empathy with template letters to victims

Modern approach needed for 'out of date' fitness-to-plead test

Court's approach to vulnerable defendants fails to achieve just outcomes, says law commissioner

ICO repeats call for stronger sentences for data thieves

Enterprise Rent-A-Car employee fined £1,000 for theft of 28,000 customers' data

The mission creep of tax evasion

HMRC's proposed legislation will mean heavier financial and criminal penalties for offshore tax evasion, but beware, says Andrew Watters – this is not evasion as we know it

Texas-style justice 'remains a pipe dream in the UK

A recent Panorama episode, 'Tough Justice in Britain: Texas Style' , gave a fascinating insight into Texas's criminal justice revolution, where the traditional 'hard on crime, hard on sentencing' view is a thing of the past.

Change of plan

A US-owned outsourcing company has dropped plans to sue the Ministry of Justice after the Lord Chancellor reversed yet another of his predecessor's policies.

New policies give international arbitration much needed makeover

ICC Court aims to instil greater confidence in tribunal process

Cash in the (police) attic

Ben Henriques considers the case law on the limits of the police powers of seizure and deprivation in criminal cases