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Last week, we began analyzing how the Supreme Court's criminal docket since 1994 has been distributed among the Districts and Divisions of the Court of Appeal.

Sometimes we get an opinion back from a court, and the reasoning leaves us scratching our heads and wondering, "Where did that come from?" In the opinion, the court has decided the case on something that neither party ever argued.

On Wednesday, January 13, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in the appeal styled under the caption Commonwealth of Puerto Rico v. Sanchez Valle, No. 15-108

The Situation: The European Commission issued an Action Plan on Anti-Money Laundering/Combating the Financing of Terrorism ("AML/CFT")

Recently, this blog has touched on how warfare between nations in the digital era includes cyberattacks.

For a business realising the awful truth that it has fallen victim to a cyber-attack, there is a lot to do: urgent IT measures to secure assets, investigations, regulatory notifications...

The Antitrust Criminal Penalty Enhancement and Reform Act (ACPERA) incentivizes companies to self-report criminal antitrust conduct under the Antitrust Division's

On Friday 18 September the FCA issued a statement, setting out its approach to assessing applications for listing made by cannabis-related businesses.

October was Domestic Violence Awareness Month – a month that is dedicated to remembering victims and persons impacted by domestic violence, celebrating survivors, and educating our community to end violence...

Until recently, conventional wisdom among prosecutors dictated that long prison terms were vital to public safety.

On October 8, 2019, the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ" or the "Government") issued new guidance for federal prosecutors ...

The Supreme Court issued two landmark decisions limiting the scope of compassionate release in federal criminal sentencing. In Rutherford v. United States and Fernandez v. United States, the Court established that non-retroactive...

On May 2, 2024, the Boston Bar Association (BBA) held its fifth annual White-Collar Crime Conference, featuring panel discussions with current and former prosecutors...

During October Term 2018 ("OT2018"), the Supreme Court reversed less than two out of every three cases – its lowest reversal rate in three years.

"You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can be used against you in a court of law." Most of us are familiar with these famous words of the Miranda warnings.

In a bid to keep English law up to date with technological advances, the Crime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill 2018 has passed the committee stage at the House of Lords.

The biggest news from the past month (as far as the WCR is concerned) arrived on September 9, when Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates issued a memorandum to all federal prosecutors, called "Individual Accountability for Corporate Wrongdoing."

Colorado's 2019 legislative session was busy, including producing a trio of new employment laws that tighten regulations on employers in the areas of pay equity