Features

Frederico Singarajah reports on the recent Brazil-British lawyers’ exchange programme in London.  

Last year, the inaugural British-Brazilian lawyers’ exchange programme took place in London during November and December. 

Sheryn Omeri on the recent decision in Hounga v Allen.  

In the recent Supreme Court decision in Hounga v Allen, the claimant, Miss Hounga, had arrived in the UK on a fraudulent passport which she had used to secure a 6-month visitor’s visa. 

A “Get out of jail free” card? Gerard McMeel explains contractual estoppel.  

As an advocate it is rarely pleasurable to enter the courtroom with one hand tied behind your back. 

Almost three years after the Bribery Act 2010 came into force, a new weapon for UK prosecutors, enshrined in the Crime and Courts Act 2013, came into effect on 24 February 2014, whereby the Serious Fraud Office and the Director of Public Prosecutions picked up the carrot of Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPA) to add to the stick of the Bribery Act.   

DPAs in the US federal system have been used by the Department of Justice in criminal prosecutions and the Securities and Exchange Commission in securities enforcement actions for over 20 years, and this inherently US approach has proved, to a large extent, successful. 

Not without some controversy surrounding it, the Global Law Summit took place in February. Counsel reports back.  

In the autumn of 2013, the General Management Committee of the Bar Council, which includes all the leaders of the publicly funded Bar, endorsed the Bar’s involvement with the February 2015 Global Law Summit (GLS). 

As the election looms, Lord Bach, shadow attorney general, talks to Chris McWatters and puts Labour’s case for justice.  

I didn’t expect to find myself in this position,” says Lord Bach, “but I’m delighted Ed Miliband asked me to do it!” 

Chris Henley QC looks at the Leveson Review and examines the proposals it makes to increase efficiency in criminal proceedings.  

The Right Honourable Sir Brian Leveson, President of the Queen’s Bench Division, was tasked in February 2014 by the Lord Chief Justice, responding to a request by the Lord Chancellor, to conduct a review into the efficiency of criminal proceedings. 

Sacrificing genetic confidentiality and criminalising revenge pornography; just some of the proposals by the sixth form participants of the 2014 Model Law Commission.  

Big Voice’s Victoria Anderson explains. 

With Parliament dissolving for the election, Mark Hatcher looks ahead to the manifestos and the importance they place on preserving our system of justice.  

The dissolution of the Westminster Parliament on 30 March means that, until a new Parliament is elected on 7 May, there are no MPs for 25 working days. 

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