Earlier this year, the Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal handed down their judgment in the case of R v Windsor [2011] EWCA Crim 143, causing a flurry of interest among criminal lawyers.

Are proposed changes to the criminal cartel offence a good thing? BIS published a consultation paper on 16 March 2011 containing its proposals for amending the criminal cartel offence introduced by the Enterprise Act 2003.

Contempt proceedings against the media are rare but on 12 May the High Court granted the Attorney General permission to proceed against the publishers of the Sun and Daily Mirror newspapers for contempt of court in relation to their reporting of the police investigation of the killing of Joanna Yeates in late December 2010.

Discussions of the impact of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 almost invariably involve the use of colourful adjectives such as inequitable and draconian.

One year ago the Home Secretary announced the introduction of a pilot scheme to pave the way for the gradual restoration of charging powers to the police.

Aberaeron is perhaps not the first place anyone would associate with controversy of any kind, let alone arguments about racial hatred.

The announcement of the appointment of Simon Duckworth from July this year as a new non executive director to the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is a welcome move at a time when the government has signally failed to provide the organisation with a clear strategy for its future.

Whatever the rationale for the low number of prosecutions compared to referrals, signs from the Government clearly point towards the fact that priorities are changing.

Joanna Fraill, the juror who used Facebook to contact Jamie Sewart, the acquitted defendant whose case she tried, was last week sentenced to 8 months’ imprisonment.

In the last days of the Victorian law on corruption in England, the Court of Appeal in R v Webster [2011] EWCA Crim 2819 has handed down an important judgment about the reverse burden of proof, the presumption of corruption, in the Prevention of Corruption Act 1916 (PCA).

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) announced its "ground breaking global agreement" with British Aerospace (BAe) in early February 2010.

The Attorney General’s Guidelines on Plea Discussions in Cases of Serious or Complex Fraud were initially welcomed by most criminal practitioners, not least because it was anticipated that they would bring a degree of certainty for a defendant or suspect when deciding to plead guilty.

The Home Office issued a consultation paper at the end of October, revising Codes of Practice C, E, F and H to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 ("PACE").

The law concerned with the conduct of criminal investigations and the decisions of prosecutors to launch or not to launch a prosecution is almost entirely judge-made.

Kim Nihill writes that companies must help fight modern slavery or face severe reputational damage.

Kamikaze cyclists, the congestion charge and the Parking Enforcement Brigade – it’s a wonder foreign nationals driving in the UK manage to get from A to B without their journey resulting in either corporal or financial ruin.

The various asset recovery powers contained in the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) are routinely criticised for being draconian and unfair to those who fall subject to them.

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is increasingly using civil recovery to settle corruption investigations. On 22 July it announced that it had terminated its criminal investigation into Macmillan Publishers Ltd in connection with suspected corruption of government officials in African countries in relation to the award of contracts.

The international community wasted little time in implementing the recent sanctions against Libya for the first time since 2003. On 26 February 2011, the United Nations passed Resolution 1970 referring the situation in Libya to the International Criminal Court and requiring all Member States to implement an asset freeze, a travel ban and an arms embargo.

A jury at Southwark Crown Court recently convicted Neel and Matthew Uberoi, a dentist and his son, of offences of insider dealing.